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Existential Phenomenology and the Practice of Caring (실존적 현상학과 돌봄의 실천)

  • Kong, Byung Hye
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.138-145
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: This study was done to provide fundamental ontological understanding of caring and inquiring into the possibility of a caring practice in nursing based on existential phenomenology. Methods: According to Heidegger's existential phenomenology, caring has been interpreted as a fundamental ontological basis for caring practice in nursing. Further, based on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, the meaning of the lived experience of illness and the way of caring practice have been described from the aspect of the existential involvement in the embodied life world. Results: Heidegger's phenomenology provided ontological thinking about caring, which is understood in a basic way as the possibility of human existence and dwelling in oneself in the confrontation of the illness experience. Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology offered a meaning of human existence according to bodily intention and situated freedom in the life world. This perspective of embodiment enables nurses to understand bodily experiences of patients and recovery of their bodily capacity in responding to the situation in caring practice. Conclusion: Existential phenomenology gives insight into fundamental reflection for caring attitude and practice in nursing. Existential phenomenological nursing research can provide descriptions and meaning of the lived experience of illness and a way of coping with the crisis of human existence in caring practice.

An Analysis of the Premarital Preparation Education Program (결혼준비교육 프로그램의 분석)

  • Moon Sook-Jae;Jung Young-A;Yoon So-Young
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.33-51
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    • 2006
  • Today, the Korean society is experiencing an increase in serious problems, such as child abuse, unmarried mothers, single mothers, which cannot be overlooked as simply trivial family matters. The increase in these problems is caused by the rapid change that has taken place within our society, which has emasculated the power of our traditional values and behavior patterns to cope with contemporary life styles. Premarital Preparation Education is starting to gain attention as a preventive measure that can overcome this serious family crisis. Although the importance of the Premarital Preparation Education program cannot be overemphasized, there are only few cases where engaged couples and unmarried men and women are exposed to this type of program and actually experience its benefits. In other words, there is an urgent need to revitalize and increase the effects of the Premarital Preparation Education Program. This research was conducted in order to find a way to revitalize and to increase the effects of the program, so that more and more people can participate and receive benefits from it. First, we have analyzed the program's contents and the current condition on how the program is actually conducted. Then we have compared real case examples of the program and analyzed the current situation and its problems.

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Experiences of Patients on the Waiting List for Deceased Donor Kidney Retransplantation (신장 재이식 대기자의 경험)

  • Jeon, Mi kyeong;Kim, Keum Soon
    • Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.11-24
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of patients on the waiting list for kidney retransplantation. Methods: The data were collected by individual in-depth interviews of nine patients who were dialyzed after primary kidney graft dysfunction and were waiting for deceased donor kidney retransplantation. All interviews were audio-taped and transcribed, and were analyzed using a phenomenological method. Results: The findings included 5 theme clusters and 13 sub-themes. The 5 clusters were 'Diagnosed with chronic renal failure and dialysis: Broken daily life and crisis', 'Kidney transplantation: The only way to escape from dialysis', 'Kidney graft failure: Inevitable moving backward to hemodialysis', 'Self-management of re-dialysis patients: Growth through pain', and 'The waiting for kidney retransplantation: To try again in the hope of getting a new life'. Conclusion: This study provides a deep understanding of patients with dialysis who are waiting for deceased donor kidney retransplantation. On the basis of the findings of this study, health professionals can provide customized information and develop effective nursing interventions to improve the self-management of these patients.

Coping Strategies of Adolescents: Predictor Variables (청소년의 긴장에 대한 대처전략과 관련변인)

  • Chung, Moon Ja;Chung, Hyun Sook
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.3-19
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    • 1994
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate adolescents' coping strategies to various stressors, and to examine factors that related to their coping strategies. The subjects of the study were 355 middle school and 398 high school students. Adolescents' coping strategy was examined with a revision of the Family Crisis Oriented Personal Scale (McCubbin, Olson, & Larson, 1982). Quality of life was measured by an 11-item scale selected from Quality of Life (Olson & Barnes, 1982) in the areas of family, friend, relationship with relatives, and health and community. Parent-adolescent communication was divided into two dimensions of open communication and problem communication, using Parent-Adolescent Communication(Barnes & Olson, 1982). A measure of the self-esteem of adolescents was obtained by using selected items from the Self-Esteem Inventory(Coopersmith, 1967) and Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965). Five types of coping strategies were found. These are "help from relatives/neighbors", "help from families", "self-help", "help from friends", and "help from religion". Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine significant predictor variables for adolescents' coping strategies. Sex, age, quality of parent-adolescent communication, family cohesion and adaptability, religion, and self-esteem were found important in predicting the types of coping strategies by adolescents.

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Development of Web-based Learning Program on Cardiopulmonary Emergency Care Focused on Clinical Scenarios (웹기반 사례중심 심폐응급간호 학습 프로그램 개발)

  • Kim, Eun-Jung;Hwang, Seon-Young
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.70-79
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to develop a Web-based learning program on cardiopulmonary emergency care for clinical nurses and to evaluate learners' responses. Methods: Based on the assessment of learning needs of clinical nurses, a total of three self-directed learning modules were developed according to the procedure of the ADDIE (assessment, design, development, implementation, & evaluation) model. Results: Each learning module included the emergency treatments and drugs used in the real patients' situations with cardiopulmonary crisis, which had been adopted from the emergency department of a C University hospital located in G-city. Real video clips for endotracheal intubation and ACLS (advanced cardiac life support) were developed with the help of the staff of the department of emergency medicine using a human simulator, $SimMan^{(R)}$. The program published on the Web was evaluated by 20 clinical nurses who are working in the emergency department and wards of a C-University hospital. About 80% of the respondents were satisfied with the program contents, design, and learning strategy. Conclusions: Web-based learning programs on cardiopulmonary emergency care are needed for clinical nurses as educational material for staff education to increase their knowledge for making immediate clinical decisions and in giving skilled care in emergency situations.

Analysis of Characteristics according to Types of Yeongdong-gun Rural Villages (충청북도 영동군 농촌마을의 유형별 특성 분석)

  • Ha, Deokcheon;Hwang, Sungki;Jeong, Kiseok;Kang, Hyunmo;Lee, Jun-serl;Jung, Kyusang;Rhee, Shinho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 2017
  • The importance key to overcome crisis in rural society is to utilize multivaluedness of rurality. In order to comprehend and utilize a variety of multivaluedness of rurality, firstly it should be needed to investigate and analyze the rural resource. secondly it should be needed to make a plan reflected re-evaleted rural resources. This study aimed at setting up the analysis of all villages in Yeongdong-Gun, Chungcheongbuk-Do by 5 rural village types(Basic life-supporting, Agricultural promotion, Marketing/processing oriented, Urban-rural communication, Life-style choice types) differed in score of classified indicators. These results are expected to be helpful to make a rural development plan reflected villages' characteristics based on rural resources.

Potential of Helicopter MRO Business (헬기 MRO 비즈니스의 잠재력)

  • Kim, Joune ho;Hwang, Chang jeon
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.34-40
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    • 2014
  • Since the global economic crisis in year 2008, the world civil helicopter market has been growing recently. According to the market outlook in the next decade, the demand of civil helicopter will be driven by the demand of Private & Corporate, Oil & Gas, Off-shore and EMS(Emergency Medical Service) usages. On the other side, the demand of military market will be driven by the modification and upgrading for life extension or performance enhancement than the new helicopter development for replacing old models. To summarize these situations, the demand of MRO(Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) market has also been on the rise because of the demand due to above several usages in civil side and the life-extension in military side. Through the MRO market analysis for characteristics, developmental trends and a supply chain, this paper describes that the potential of MRO business is considerably large as a propulsive power of domestic helicopter industry. And also, it proposes the construction direction of MRO network because the domestic industry must make the developmental awareness and reliability a stepping-stone towards own helicopter.

Improved High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method for the Determination of N-vanillyl-n-nonivamide(nonivamide) in Korean Hot Peppers (HPLC 법에 의한 국산 고추에 함유되어 있는 Nonivamide의 신규 분석법 개발)

  • Choi, Suk-Hyun
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.585-591
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    • 2006
  • We report a novel HPLC method for analyzing the capsaicinoids and nonivamide. The following conditions were used: a total column and column temperature of $3^{\circ}C$, a detection wavelength of 280 nm, an eluent containing acetonitrile : 0.5% formic acid(31:69, v/v). The experimental data was compared with standard nonivamide and capsaicin. The results showed that nonivamide was eluted in 96.7 minutes with a recovery ratio of 96.5% after adding known nonivamide. In addition, the detection limit for nonivamide was 18.6 ng. The capsaicinoids from Korean pepper were extracted (after blooming 60th) from 3 breeds cultivated in Korea, Buchon, Chungyang and Hanbando. and crisis it analyzed sympathizes the nonivamide in the result nonivamide from the Buchon and the Chungyang which are not detected from the Hanbando $0.16{\sim}0.24{\mu}g/g$ it detects with very small amount it contains it confirmed the each capsaicinoid with the HPLC and the LC-MS. These results are expected contribute to the quality control of various product processes, which includes product delivery inspection as well as examining the capsaicinoids present in the product for possible medicine manufacture and various foodstuff, and the nonivamide content, which may be a feed for various manufacturing processes involving chemical synthesis.

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Practical Approach and Nursing Intervention for Cancer Patients with Suicidal Idea (자살사고를 보이는 암환자에 대한 실제적 접근 및 간호 중재)

  • Kwon, Shin-Young;Cho, Seong-Jin
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.58-64
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    • 2003
  • Cancer is a life crisis which inflicts major psychological and physical trauma upon the victim. Most of the cancer patients suffer from major depression, profound frustration, and impaired social adjustment. Therefore suicidal ideation and suicidal attempt are also becoming a serious threat to cancer patients and their families. Hospice is patient-centered, and accepts the inevitability of 'death' while simultaneously being life-affirming. Even though there is no chance of physical cure, there is much scope for psychosocial and spiritual healing. Most of cancer patients who commit suicide suffer hem many mental problems. Hospice specialists must play an important role in evaluating and managing emotional or behavioral problems associated with suicidal ideatior and are also are expected to serve as informed commentators regarding suicide. It is crucial that hospice specialists define their role and develop clinical skills to intervene in suicidal event effectively. A systematic approach to suicidal cancer patients is a essential, and there is need for specific training for all hospice professionals. In this case report, the author introduced knowledge and clinical guidelines for a desirable approach to suicidal cancer patient.

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The Sub-history and its meaning in Independence War of Spain against Napoleonic France - Focused on Episodios nacionales and Numancia

  • Lim, Juin
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.24
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    • pp.19-31
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    • 2011
  • This article examines the historical view of Benito $P{\acute{e}}rez$ $Gald{\acute{o}}s$ in his historical novel named "Zaragoza" and "$C{\acute{a}}novas$" by comparing with Numancia of Cervantes. In front of the national survival crisis, $Gald{\acute{o}}s$ recognizes that it is necessary that Spain should recover humanity and morality on basis of the krausist ideal. The krausists warned subjective idealism, stressing on free-will and moral conscience in a harmonious balance of rationality. Without refusing patriotism, they warned egoistic patriotism deformed by national selfishness or nationalism. Giner de los Ríos insisted on a necessity of harmonizing national inclination and universal one. $Gald{\acute{o}}s$ emphasizes that the identity of Spain is not possession of privileged class but sweat and tears of the mass of people in daily life. He represents Efemera as the ideal history on the basis of Unamuno's 'intrahistoria', by which, instead of $Luk{\acute{a}}cs^{\prime}$ progressive history, we can peep into a historical poetics of human free nature and vividness of discontinuous and endless shifting. According to the sub-history, we come to the conclusion that $Gald{\acute{o}}s$ and Cervantes would lay emphasis on sub-history, aiming to essence of Spanish soul originated from national landscape and people's daily life.