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KMID : 1172020160170010075
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2016 Volume.17 No. 1 p.75 ~ p.87
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Relationship between moral sensitivity and elderly nursing practice of nurses
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Hong So-Hyoung
Park Yang-Hee
Moon Ji-Seon
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Abstract
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This is a descriptive research to understand the relation between nurses’ moral sensitivity and elderly nursing practice, targeting 186 nurses working for hospitals in G metropolitan city. In the results of this study, nurses’ moral sensitivity was higher than the medium level while their elderly nursing practice was in the high level, which was lower than other preceding researches. In each sub-area of moral sensitivity, the moral sensitivity in professional responsibility and patient-centered areas was higher than other areas while the moral sensitivity in the general characteristics showed significant differences in accordance with age, academic background, religion, and position. Their moral sensitivity and elderly nursing practice showed positive correlations. It means that elderly nursing practice is high when moral sensitivity is high, so that elderly nursing practice can be improved by enhancing moral sensitivity. Thus, it would be necessary to develop educational programs that can enhance every aspect of moral sensitivity by improving the lowest moral meaning among sub-areas of moral sensitivity. As the nursing care service is scheduled to be extended to the entire hospital from 2018, it would be necessary to develop educational programs that can improve multi-dimensional moral sensitivity including cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects regarding the careful and mutually-open decision-making process about dignified human being to practice more qualitative elderly nursing.
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KEYWORD
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Nurse, Elderly, Elderly nursing practice, Moral sensitivity, Moral meaning, Nursing care service
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