Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing

Original Articles

Types of Perception toward Ethical Issues in Perioperative Nurses: Q-Methodological Approach: Jin Nam Kim, Seok Hee Jeong; J Korean Acad Nurs 2018;48(6):679-691. Published online January 15, 2018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2018.48.6.679

Abstract PDF: Abstract Purpose
This study was aimed at identifying the types of perceptions of ethical issues among perioperative nurses.
Methods
Q-methodology focusing on individual subjectivity was used with data collected in November 2016. Thirty-four Q-statements were selected and scored by the 35 participants on a 9-point scale with normal distribution. Participants were perioperative nurses working in advanced general hospitals and general hospitals. The data were analyzed using the PC-QUANL program.
Results
A total of 35 perioperative nurses were classified into 4 factors based on the following viewpoints: self-centered (type 1), onlooking and avoiding (type 2), patient-centered (type 3), and problem-centered (type 4). The 4 factors accounted for 57.84% of the total variance. Individual contributions of factors 1, 2, 3, and 4 were 41.80%, 7.18%, 5.20%, and 3.66%, respectively.
Conclusion
The major contribution of this study is the clarification of perioperative nurses’ subjective perceptions of ethical issues. These findings can be used in formulating effective strategies for nursing educators, professional nurses, and nursing administrators to improve ethical decision-making abilities and to perform ethical nursing care by the appropriate management of ethical issues in everyday nursing practice.

Aesthetical-ethical Paradigm of Care Ethics in Nursing: Byung Hye Kong; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2002;32(3):364-372. Published online March 29, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2002.32.3.364

Abstract PDF: PURPOSE: The purposes of this study was to find aesthetical-ethical paradigm of care ethics by understanding the unique moral character of care as an art and to suggest the optimal direction of nursing ethics. METHOD: This study used meaning-heuristic and -interpretive methods of hermeneutics based on philosophical aesthetic theory; Baumgarten's aesthetics, Schiller's theory of aesthetical education and Kant's theory of aesthetical judgement. RESULT: The concept of care implied aesthetical and ethical character; caring as an art was related to moral feeling based on human dignity und emotional communication in interpersonal-relationship. Caring as an art was interpreted as a moral ideal for the promotion of the humanity und the interaction in personal-relationship according to nursing theories. Philosophical aesthetics could provide the theoretical base for the interpretation of caring as an art. The proper paradigm of care ethics in nursing could be found in character-trait ethics and communication ethics according to the philosophical aesthetics. CONCLUSION: This study could show aesthetical-ethical paradigm of care ethics in nursing by the heuristic interpretation of caring as an art according to the philosophical aesthetics.

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