A study of nursing professionals' awareness of ethical issues : A comparison between clinical nurses and public health nurses

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  • 倫理問題に関する看護職(臨床看護師と保健師)の認識の比較

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While nursing professionals are active in the fields of medicine, health and welfare, there are few studies on nursing professionals' awareness of ethical issues except for those of nurses. The present study examined the differences between clinical nurses and public health nurses in terms of their awareness of ethical issues. The research was conducted using the self-report format based on the previous studies. The results showed that more clinical nurses than public health nurses responded to almost all items of nursing-related ethical issues which they had either faced or worried about. The only item that the public health nurses responded more than the clinical nurses was "the difficulty of intervention with abuse issues." The percentage of the clinical nurses who had a place or opportunity to talk about ethical issues was 45%, whereas that of the public health nurses was only 7%. Furthermore, the percentage of the clinical nurses who indicated that they had an ethics committee at their work place was 30%, whereas that of the public health nurses was 2%. In contrast, the percentage of the clinical nurses who were not facing any ethical issues at the time was 40%, whereas that of the public health nurses was 70%. The results indicated that the public health nurses had fewer ethical issues and places or opportunities to discuss ethical issues than the clinical nurses, implying the influences of the place and contents of their work environment.

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  • Bioethics

    Bioethics 14 (1), 107-113, 2004

    Japan Association for Bioethics

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