• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.22
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• pp.1-27
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• 1992

Librarians long ago proclaimed themselves professionals. Until recently, however, librarians and information professionals gave very little thought to professional ethics, which have corne to play an increasingly important role in all areas in modern society. They have been stimulated to consider their specific domain within an ethical context now. Professional norms express obligations which include prescribing standards, principles of responsibilities, and rules of duties. Professional codes attempt to formulate the norms of professional ethics and are the basis for disciplinary measures of various kinds. This paper discusses professional properties and characteristics of libarianship with a special reference to the code of professional ethics. The codes of ethics of the American Library Association, the Library Association, and of the Japanese Library Association have been reviewed and compared. The arguments on the enforcibility of the professional codes of ethics, therefore, on their effectiveness have been discussed. Author concludes that, despite some doubts on the practical effectiveness of the ethics code expressed by a number of scholars, a code of ethics is very much required in the information professions. Properly disseminated, a code would enhance the status and standing of the profession by demonstrating concerns for the maintenance of the highest possible level of standards of professional services. It would also play an important role in raising consciousness of the clients by communicating the value of the works.

• Korean Medical Education Review
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.90-103
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• 2021

This study examined the current status of the medical professionalism curriculum in Korea to suggest a plan to move towards the formation of a professional identity. Professionalism education data from 28 Korean medical schools were analyzed, including the number of courses, required or elective status, corresponding credits, major course contents, and teaching and evaluation methods. Considerable variation was found in the number of courses and credits in the professionalism curriculum between medical schools. The course contents were structured to expand learners' experiences, including the essence and knowledge of professionalism, understanding of oneself, social interaction with others, and the role of doctors in society and the healthcare system. The most common teaching methods were lectures and discussions, while reflective writing, coaching, feedback, and role models were used by fewer than 50% of medical schools. Written tests, assignments and reports, discussions, and presentations were frequently used as evaluation methods, but portfolio and self-evaluation rates were relatively low. White coat ceremonies were conducted in 96.2% of medical schools, and 22.2% had no code of conduct. Based on the above results, the author suggests that professional identity formation should be explicitly included in learning outcomes and educational contents, and that professional identity formation courses need to be added to each year of the program. The author also proposes the need to expand teaching methods such as reflective writing, feedback, dilemma discussion, and positive role models, to incorporate various evaluation methods such as portfolios, self-assessment, and moral reasoning, and to strengthen faculty development.

• Korean Journal of School Psychology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.221-247
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• 2021

This study was conducted to determine if the relationships between role identification confusion and burnout and between role identification confusion and job satisfaction are mediated by role conflict and whether job crafting moderates the mediating the relationships between role conflict and burnout and between role conflict and job satisfaction. A total of 150 professional school counselors completed a survey about role identification confusion, role conflict, burnout, job satisfaction, and job crafting. The results of a correlation analysis showed that the relationship between role identification confusion and burnout was statistically significantly positive, the relationship between role identification confusion and job satisfaction was statistically significantly negative, and that role conflict mediated the relationships between role identification confusion and burnout and between role identification confusion and job satisfaction. However, the moderated mediation effect of job crafting in these relationships was not statistically significant. This paper discusses this study's limitations and suggestions for further research.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.3725-3733
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among professional identity, role conflict and job satisfaction of nurses in and emergency department and to verify the factors that influence the job satisfaction. The subjects were 120 nurses in the emergency department of 2 tertiary hospitals and 5 secondary hospitals located in B city from July 1, 2013 to July 31, 2013. The professional identity and role conflict, and the professional identity and job satisfaction showed positive correlations. The factors influencing the job satisfaction were found to be the professional identity and 'hoping to work at an emergency department in the future'. The full explanatory power of the model was 13.0%. Therefore, participating in a symposium and specialty enhancing training will be needed to enhance the specialty of emergency department nurses.

• Journal of muscle and joint health
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.81-89
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• 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore factors affecting the retention intention of nurses working at long-term care hospitals. Methods: Data were collected from 147 nurses working in 10 long-term care hospitals using self-report questionnaires of role conflict, job satisfaction, professional pride and retention intention T-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. Results: The mean age of subjects was $47.4{\pm}10.1$ (22~65). Average length of clinical experiences was $170.12{\pm}98.99$ months. The level of retention intention was significantly different by the educational level (t=4.21, p=.017). Retention Intention was significantly associated with professional job satisfaction (r=.36, p<.001) and professional pride (r=.69, p<.001), but were not significantly correlated with role conflict (r=-.07, p=.376). The multiple regression analysis shows that significant factors, affecting the retention intention were professional pride (t=9.87, p<.001) and job satisfaction (t=3.37, p=.001), which explained 46.1% of the retention intention collectively. Conclusion: It is crucial to make substantial efforts to increase professional pride and job satisfaction in order to increase nurses' retention intention.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.66-74
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• 1984

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.13-17
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• 1995

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.18-24
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• 2002

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.42-48
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• 1999

• Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2004

Purpose: This study is a descriptive research conducted for looking into the role awareness level. role conflicts, and job satisfaction among professional home care nurses in the field of hospital based home care nursing service. Method: 154 specialized home care nurses in 63 hospitals and clinics that are implementing home care programs were subject to the study. Result: 1. The level of role awareness among professional home care nurses was $4.47\pm0.41$ on average out of 5. 2. The average score for role conflicts was $3.87\pm0.61$ out of 5. 3. In terms of job satisfaction level. $3.33\pm0.71$ was scored out of 5. 4. It has been discovered that there are statistically significant positive correlations among role awareness level, role conflicts(r= .224, P= .005), and job satisfaction level(r= .166, P=.040), while a negative correlation was detected between role conflicts and job satisfaction level(r=-.210, P= .009). Conclusion: The level of role awareness among professional home care nurses in the field of hospital based home care nursing service was very high and job satisfaction level was high when the level of home care nursing antecedents was high and the organization structure of working place was independent. But the level of role conflicts coming out of the weakness of job-supporting system was high. So the realistic alternative such as the improvement of working environment by administrative, institutional support, is required to make up for this problem in the future.