Identifying and Prioritizing the Moral Virtue Indicators for Undergraduate Nursing Students: Measurement Invariance Testing Across Class Levels

The findings spotlight the importance of the 10 moral virtue indicators for undergraduate nursing students. Besides, the junior and senior student nurses prioritized the importance of the 10 indicators measuring moral virtue differently. Therefore, administrators and nurse educators should provide the ethical scenarios and issues for classroom discussion and implement clinically authentic case-based simulations with timely feedback in laboratories for junior students. A regulatory process on moral virtues, using critical reflection, assessment criteria, and multirater assessors, should be deliberated in clinical training for senior students so that they adhere to moral virtues. These tailored strategies may help student nurses recognize their ethical behavior and gain personal and professional development as future nurses.