Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing (중환자간호학회지)

Korean Society of Critical Care Nursing (한국중환자간호학회)
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A Comparison of Clinical Nurses' Nursing Ethical Values according to Career and Characteristics of Nursing Unit in General Hospital.

일개 종합병원 임상 간호사의 경력별, 근무부서별 간호윤리관 비교

  • Song, Kyung-Ja (Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Yoo, Cheong-Suk (Special Nursing Part, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Yu, Mi (Nursing Administrative Department, Seoul National University Hospital)
  • 송경자 (서울대학교병원 간호부 간호행정팀) ;
  • 유정숙 (서울대학교병원 간호부 복수간호과) ;
  • 유미 (서울대학교 간호부 간호행정)
  • Received : 2010.01.26
  • Accepted : 2010.05.17
  • Published : 2010.06.30
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Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to explore and compare the level and type of nursing ethical values according to career and nursing units of clinical nurses, Methods: The subjects were 944 nurses working in General Hospital in Seoul and the data were collected from March 8 to August, 2007 using the nursing ethical values questionnaire, The collected data were analyzed using SPSS WIN 10.0 program. Results: The results were as follows; The level of clinical nurses' ethical values were significantly different according to career and nursing units (p<.01) and it was found that most clinical nurses had deontological ethics in the areas of professional nursing domain ($2.77{\pm}.31$), cooperative relations domain ($2.90{\pm}.26$) and customer relation domain ($3.03{\pm}.32$). but that they had utilitarian ethics in human life domain ($2.53{\pm}.32$). Conclusion: Different approaches are needed to develop to establish clinical nurses' ethical values based on career, characteristics of nursing unit and various clinical situations.

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