ABSTRACT
Objective: To investigate the status of the consciousness of biomedical ethics and its influential factors among nursing students in advanced vocational college and to provide evidence for the development of bio-medical ethics education and research. Methods:A total of 550 nursing students from an advanced vocational col-lege were surveyed on their personal information, the consciousness of biomedical ethics and its influential factors using the self-constructed questionnaires, e. g. , general information questionnaire and consciousness of biomedic-al ethics questionnaire. Results: The mean of the consciousness of biomedical ethics among nursing students is 2. 78, which was associated with age, length of schooling, whether get the related information or not and whether discussed about the topic with teachers and families or not. Spearmen correlation analysis showed that age, grades of nursing students has effect on the consciousness of biomedical ethics. Conclusion:The views of biomedical eth-ics among nursing students in advanced vocational college need to be clarified. A variety of ways should be used to guide the nursing students to the deep understanding of ethical problems and to help them have positive awareness of biomedical ethics.