This study was conducted to in-depth understand and describe the thoughts and experiences of nursing students in the practice of the intensive care unit. Data was collected through focus group interviews with 14 nursing students who voluntarily participated in the study targeting students who practiced the intensive care unit and analyzed by the content analysis. As a result of the study, two themes, 'ethical challenges faced in intensive care unit practice' and 'incomplete reflection, were derived. The categories included in the former were 'feeling wrong in the appearance of a nurse', 'thinking about a good nurse', 'thinking about the cause of the wrong practice', and the categories included in the latter were ''fear of being assimilated', and 'pledge oneself by put yourself in someone else's shoes’. Based on these results, it is necessary to develop ethics education to become a nurse who can form correct ethical comfortment, including ethics education in clinical practice instruction as well as classroom instruction.

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.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the current status and needs of nursing education for extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants in Korea, and to obtain preliminary information to develop a simulation-based educational program on nursing care for nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICUs). Method: Descriptive survey design was adopted in developing an ELBW infant nursing education program. Data were collected from 71 NICU nurses using a questionnaire survey. Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) (version 23) for windows was used to analyze the frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation of the collected data. Results: Seventy-one nurses working in the NICU reported that majority of them (76.1%) had experience in ELBW infants’ nursing education. The following were highly recommended for simulated training by NICU nurses: nursing intervention immediately after birth in ELBW infants (69.0%), NICU‘ initial admission nursing (66.2%), and frequency response coping nursing (57.7%). Conclusion: The study revealed that there is a considerable need for the ELBW infants nursing education program. The results of this survey will ultimately provide a basis for developing simulation-based ELBW infants nursing training programs for NICU nurses.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the nursing unit manager's experience with patient safety accidents. Methods: Data were collected from April, 2017 to December, 2017 through in-depth interviews with seven unit managers who worked in General wards, OPD or in the ICU of a general hospital. Qualitative content analysis method was used to analyze the data. Results: The following four categories were elicited; dimensions are different from each other, complex feelings about the person after the accident, ambivalence for the accident triggers, leadership learned from accident management. Conclusion: The findings provided valuable informations on the nursing unit managers' experience with patient safety accidents, which held many nursing implications. Based on the findings, it is possible to develop accident management guidelines and the support system for accident management personnels.