Background and Aims: One of the principles that should always be considered in designing curriculum, pursuing the goals and content of the curriculum in three dimensions: cognitive, affective and psycho-motor. If one of these dimensions be neglected in the curriculum, the curriculum will lose its balance and will not lead to sustainable learning. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the attention to the emotional domain in the nursing curriculum.

Methods: This research method is qualitative and phenomenological which was conducted in 2014. The research population included a fourth-year nursing students at the Urmia University of Medical Sciences. 14 students were interviewed using purposive sampling. The recorded interviews were transcribed and were analyzed by Diekelmann approach. To ensure the validity of the findings the validity of respondent and member check were used.

Results: After collecting data using Diekelmann’s seven steps approach, information was analyzed. After analyzing the data, five obtained main themes are: Lack of student’s interest in their field of study, Lack of motivation to learn new things, Lack of sufficient attention to the interests and preferences of students by Professors, Negative attitude towards the content of some courses, Negative attitudes about education in clinical situations.

Conclusions: The findings showed that the nursing curriculum designers and implementers have failed to pay attention to the affective domain in their curriculum and focus more on achieving cognitive and psycho - motor goals.

Introduction: The concept of professional ethics is one of the most important issues which in recent years have been highly regarded. On the other hand this concept is extremely important in the field of nursing so universities and educational institutions should pay attention to this concept. Therefore, this study aimed to the reflection of professional ethics in undergraduate nursing textbooks.
Methods: This research is descriptive and the type of content analysis and with respect to the goal is applied research. In the present study due to the nature of the subject, categorical analysis is used. Statistical population consisted of six nursing textbooks that during the period of formal education, introduced by Professors for nursing students. Was used researcher-made check list to collect information. This check list has 8 main components and subcomponent was 32. To ensure the reliability of the check list, William Scott's formula was used. In this study, the unit of analysis was sentence.
Results: According to a survey conducted on the six textbooks and the sentences of these books, results showed that the concept of professional ethics and its components are not reflected in an appropriate level.
Conclusions: According to the findings of this study can be concluded that despite the growth of the conceptual issues of professional ethics in most fields of study,but in practice, nursing textbooks have paid little attention to this concept and attention is very superficial