A Study on the Ethical Values of Clinical Nurses
AUTHORS
Ji Yun Choi,PhD, Department of Nursing Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jong Wook Ko,Professor. PhD, Anyang University, Korea
Sun Hee Nam,Nursing Manager, Department of Nursing Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 03181, 29 Saemunan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to analyze the ethical values of nurses working in clinical settings by collecting data from 201 hospital nurses using structured questionnaires. First, the average score of the nurses’ ethics values was 2.91 points out of 5 points, indicating that the utilitarian position was dominant overall. The average scores of the nursing ethics values were found to be 3.28 points in the human life area, whereas the mean scores in the nursing work relationship area, the subject relationship area, and the partner area were 2.67, 2.58 and 2.26, respectively, indicating that the position of utilitarianism is dominant. Second, the results of the analysis of the difference of the nursing ethics values by the background variables showed that there were significant differences in nursing ethics values by the two variables of education and department, while there were no significant differences by age, marital status, clinical career, religion, parents’ survival, and immediate family members with chronic illness or incurable disease.
KEYWORDS
Hospital nurses, Ethical values, Ethical conflict, Utilitarianism, Deontology
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