Being ethical and bioethical in daily life of primary health care: nurses’ perceptions

Abstract

Objectives: to understand the perceptions of ethics and bioethics and how to be ethical and bioethical in daily life of Primary Health Care, from the perspective of nurses. Methods: this is a Holistic-qualitative Multiple Case Study, based on Comprehensive Everyday Sociology, with 54 participants. Results: two subcategories and the category Being ethical and bioethical in daily life of PHC: nurses’ perceptions emerged. The ethical and bioethical being permeates a subjective and abstract self, whose fears, anxieties and concerns are intertwined with the human and professional dimensions in daily work and in personal-professional relationship. Ethics and bioethics perceptions emerge from subjectivity, established relationships, lived experiences and daily actions of nurses essential to the profession, professionals and individuals to be cared for. Final Considerations: ethical and bioethical perceptions and attitudes are essential to care, management and organizational actions, health care, and the safety of users and professionals.

The influence of hospital nurses’ moral sensitivity and ethical values on their biomedical ethics awareness

“…또한 윤리적 가치관은 간호 수행 시 간호방식이나 기술을 선택 하는 과정에서 판단의 기준이 되는 것으로, 윤리적 가치관이 흔들 릴 때 도덕적 의사결정에서 갈등을 경험하게 된다고 보고된다 [8]. 현재까지의 선행 문헌들을 살펴보면, 국외의 경우 간호사들의 생명의료윤리 의식에 대한 질적 연구가 보고되었고 [12], 생명의료 윤리 의식 중 하위항목을 중점적으로 다룬 연구 [13,14] [8]. 도구의 신뢰도 는 Choi [22]의 연구에서 Cronbach's α=.65였고, 본 연구에서 Cronbach's α=.63이었다.…”