Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the perception of biomedical ethics in nurses and nurse’s aide of comprehensive nursing care service.
Methods: The subjects were 287 registered nurses and 81 nurse’s aides who were working in comprehensive nursing care service. The data were collected from December 2 to 15, 2019 using a 4-point Likert scale questions. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test and Dunnett T3 test, using the SPSS/WIN 23 program.
Results: The average score of perception of biomedical ethics in nurses were 2.95±0.25 and nurse’s aides were 3.08±0.25 points. The perception of biomedical ethics by general characteristics related to age and marital status(p=.001), education(p=.007), a total career length and a career length of comprehensive nursing care service(p<.001), job satisfaction(p=.004) of the nurse biomedical ethics score was high and statistically significant.
However, the higher the age of nurse’s aide, the higher the score was statistically significant(p=.007). The perception of biomedical ethics by characteristics related to biomedical ethics was statistically higher among nurses saying that the values of biomedical ethics were very firm (p =.002), those who have experience of having issues biomedical ethics (p =.001), those who believed that rules and procedures for biomedical ethics in a hospital were well organized (p =.003), those who believed that biomedical ethics problems would become more complex and increase in the future (p =.017), and those who experienced ethical dilemmas (p =.019).
Conclusion: In the future, biomedical ethics education should be provided for nursing service teams.
2000년 7월을 기점으로 의약분업이 전국적으로 실시될 예정이다. 의약분업의 시행은 '약은 약사에게, 진료는 의사에게'라는 의약분업 본래의 취지 못지 않게 의약품 유통의 왜곡을 시정키 위한 조치이며 이에 따른 사회적/경제적 비용-국민의 불편 포함- 을 고려해 볼 때 이는 건국이래 행하여진 보건 정책 중 국민 생활에 가장 큰 영향을 미칠 것으로 보인다. 의약품의 유통 못지 않게 '의료보험'에 관한 논란 역시 현재 매우 중대한 사회적 주목을 받고 있는 문제이다. 현재 직장의보 및 지역의보와 관련되어 행해지고 있는 논란은 그 결과를 가늠키 어려운 난제임에 틀림없으며 그 결과여부에 관계없이 또 다른 막대한 사회적 비용을 요구할 것으로 보인다. 본 논문에서는 위의 두 가지 문제를 동시에 해결할 수 있는 의료통합정보시스템을 구축하고자한다.