• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.204-212
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• 2021

Ethical sensitivity is a basic competency required for nursing students to work as professionals who will care patients in the clinical field after graduation. Therefore, efforts are needed to improve the knowledge on ethical sensitivity in undergraduate education. This study aimed to identify the demographic characteristics that influence ethical sensitivity among nursing students. This study was a secondary analysis that referred to a previous work measuring ethical sensitivity in nursing students. The participants were 128 nursing students, who had experienced clinical practicums. Among the participants, those who were third-year (t=2.345, 95% CI=[1.24, 14.64], p=0.021), female (t=2.635, 95% CI=[3.65, 25.69], p=0.009) and were satisfaction with major (t=-2.389, 95% CI=[-16.54, -1.50], p=0.019) consistently reported significantly higher mean scores on ethical sensitivity. The explanatory power of the model was 13.3%. Gender (Exp (B)=0.875, 95% CI=[0.804, 0.952], p=0.002) and year at universtiy were the strongest predictors of ethical sensitivity (Exp (B)=0.921, 95% CI=[0.873, 0.971], p=0.002). Based on the results, an appropriate ethics education that considers the following issues should be provided for undergraduate nursing students: both genders' perspectives, seniors' further development, and students experiencing low satisfaction with their major. Future nursing education should consider these individual demographic characteristics to develop nursing students' ethical sensitivity that will further affect their ethical behavior and ultimately improve the quality of nursing.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.23-37
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• 2022

This study evaluated the engineering students' ethical sensitivity to an AI emotion recognition robot scenario and explored its characteristics. For data collection, 54 students (27 majoring in Convergence Electronic Engineering and 27 majoring in Computer Software) were asked to list five factors regarding the AI robot scenario. For the analysis of ethical sensitivity, it was checked whether the students acknowledged the AI ethical principles in the AI robot scenario, such as safety, controllability, fairness, accountability, and transparency. We also categorized students' levels as either informed or naive based on whether or not they infer specific situations and diverse outcomes and feel a responsibility to take action as engineers. As a result, 40.0% of students' responses contained the AI ethical principles. These include safety 57.1%, controllability 10.7%, fairness 20.5%, accountability 11.6%, and transparency 0.0%. More students demonstrated ethical sensitivity at a naive level (76.8%) rather than at the informed level (23.2%). This study has implications for presenting an ethical sensitivity evaluation tool that can be utilized professionally in educational fields and applying it to engineering students to illustrate specific cases with varying levels of ethical sensitivity.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.416-425
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• 2016

As curriculum statements require addressing ethical and social issues which are raised by modern science and technology, the ability to perceive ethical and social issues regarding science is necessary for teachers to introduce socio-scientific issues (SSI) in their science class. The purpose of this study is to explore elementary school teachers' ethical sensitivity on SSI and attempts to give implications for teacher education. To explore the ethical sensitivity in the context of SSI, the revised version of the Test for Ethical Sensitivity on Science (TESS) was used. Two socio-scientific issues (genetic engineering and radioactive waste) were provided to read and write down five possible questions they believed should be considered before reaching a decision. Data was collected from eighty-two elementary school teachers in Korea. To analyze the ethical sensitivity, the responses including ethical considerations were analyzed by situation and ethical issues. The result showed that 81 out of 82 teacher participants provided at least more than one ethical consideration on each scenario of this study. However, not many teacher could raise various ethical issues and situation that ethical issue might occur. There were only a few teaches who could consider all the situations, 'process of scientific research', 'application of science and technology', and 'science influenced by society', that ethical issues might occur. Especially, teachers failed to consider that the ethical issue can occur in the situation when science is influenced by society. Based on the results, we suggest that during teacher education teachers need to experience finding various ethical issues that can occur in the context of SSI and especially considering the ethical issues when science is influenced by society.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.485-493
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• 2004

Purpose: This study was to identify the degree of empowerment and ethical sensitivity of staff nurses and to examine the relationship between empowerment and ethical sensitivity. Method: Data were collected from 235 staff nurses in 4 hospitals in Gyeonggi Province using a questionnaire and collected data was analyzed by the SPSS PC program. Results: The degree of empowerment was 2.76(${\pm}$ .35) out of a possible score of 4 and that of ethical sensitivity was 0.71(${\pm}$ .11) out of a possible score of 1. The relationship of between empowerment and ethical sensitivity showed statistically significant positive correlation(r=.34, p=.00). For general characteristics, there was a significant difference in empowerment according to age(F=13.18, p=.00), educational background(t=-2.09, p=.04) and clinical practice career(F=15.15, p=.00) and in ethical sensitivity according to age(F=4.01, p=.02). In characteristics related to ethics, there was a significant difference in empowerment according to experience of ethics instruction in clinical practice(t=2.25, p=.03), attitude toward the nursing profession(F=7.96, p=.00) and ethical standards(F=9.39, p=.00) and in ethical sensitivity according to attitude toward the nursing profession(F=2.94, p=.03). Conclusion: Findings suggest that a systemic and effective training program reflecting the above general and related ethics characteristics be developed to enhance empowerment and ethical sensitivity.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.180-189
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to confirm the relationship between nursing students' nursing professionalism and ethical decision-making confidence, and to clarify the mediating effect of moral sensitivity which has a mutual influence on nursing professionalism and ethical decision-making confidence. Methods: The data collection for this study was conducted from January 23 to February 1, 2021 with junior and senior nursing students enrolled in five nursing departments in two regions. The data collected in this study were analyzed using the IBM SPSS statistics version 23.0 program. Results: Through this study, it was found that nursing professionalism (β=.47) and moral sensitivity (β=.32) acted as important influencing factors on the ethical decision-making confidence of nursing students, with an explanatory power of 31.2%. In addition, it was confirmed that there was a partial mediating effect of moral sensitivity in the relationship between the nursing professionalism and ethical decision-making confidence of nursing students, and the mediating effect coefficient of moral sensitivity was .16. Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, it is suggested to prepare a plan to increase ethical decision-making confidence and moral sensitivity when planning interventions to improve nursing professionalism in nursing students.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.219-228
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• 2018

본 연구는 간호대학생의 윤리적 가치와 윤리적 민감성이 인성에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위해 임상실습을 경험한 간호학과 3, 4학년 356명을 대상으로 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 수행되었다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 20.0 프로그램을 활용하여 t-test, ANOVA/Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson 상관계수, 단계적 회귀분석을 하였다. 연구 결과 인성에 영향을 미치는 주요 요인은 윤리적 민감성 중에서 환자중심간호영역이었으며(${\beta}=0.258$), 윤리적 가치 중 간호사협동자관계영역(${\beta}=0.153$) 점수가 높을수록, 종교(${\beta}=0.131$)가 있는 경우, 윤리적 민감성 중 전문적책임영역(${\beta}=0.101$)의 점수가 높을수록 인성에 긍정적 영향을 주었으며, 이상의 변수들은 인성의 43.3%를 설명하는 것으로 나타났다(F=44.960, p<.001). 본 연구를 통하여 윤리적 가치와 윤리적 민감성이 인성에 영향을 주는 중요한 변수임을 확인할 수 있었으며 인성 함양을 위해 이러한 요인들을 고려한 다학제적 융합교육 수업방안 마련이 필요하다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.144-153
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 요양병원 간호사의 도덕적 민감성, 자기주장성, 윤리적 의사결정 자신감의 정도, 상관관계, 윤리적 의사결정 자신감에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하기 위한 서술적 조사연구이다. 연구대상자는 G도에 소재한 6개의 요양병원에 근무하는 간호사 149명으로, 자료수집은 2019년 11월 30일부터 12월 18일까지 시행하였으며 SPSS win 21.0 프로그램을 이용하여 기술통계, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation 및 Multiple regression으로 분석하였다. 대상자의 도덕적 민감성 정도는 평균 4.94점, 자기주장성 정도는 평균 3.17점, 윤리적 의사결정 자신감 정도는 평균 3.49점이었다. 일반적 특성에 따른 자기주장성 정도는 도덕적 고뇌 경험 유무에서 유의한 차이를 보였고, 윤리적 의사결정 자신감 정도에서는 직위와 윤리적 교육 경험 유무에서 유의한 차이를 보였다. 윤리적 의사결정 자신감은 도덕적 민감성(r=.382, p<.001)과 자기주장성(r=.224, p<.01)과 유의한 정적 상관이 있었다. 요양병원 간호사의 윤리적 의사 결정 자신감에 영향을 주는 변인은 도덕적 민감성과 윤리적 교육 경험 여부, 자기주장성임을 확인하였고, 윤리적 의사결정 자신감에 대한 이들 변인의 설명력은 25.0%였다. 따라서 요양병원 간호사의 윤리적 의사결정 자신감을 향상하기 위해서는 윤리적 교육을 통한 도덕적 민감성과 자기주장성을 함께 향상할 수 있는 프로그램 개발이 필요하다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.678-688
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing nurses' performance of care in COVID-19 wards. Methods: The participants were 132 nurses who worked in COVID-19 wards at three hospitals, and were recruited from April 1 to May 31, 2021. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis with SPSS/WIN 24.0 program. Results: Nursing performance was significantly and positively correlated with ethical sensitivity (r = .75, p < .001), nursing professionalism (r = .67, p < .001), and social support (r = .67, p < .001). Nursing professionalism was positively correlated with ethical sensitivity (r = .64, p < .001) and social support (r = .55, p < .001). Multiple regression analysis for nursing performance revealed that the most significant factor was ethical sensitivity (β = .47, p < .001). Ethical sensitivity, nursing professionalism, and social support explained 66.0% of total variance in nursing performance. Conclusion: Ethical sensitiviy, nursing professionalism, and social support significantly influence nurses' performace of care in COVID-19 wards. It suggests that intervention programs should be directed at improving nurses' ethical sensitivity, bolstering social support, and enhancing nursing professionalism.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.5-28
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• 2008

본 연구는 사회복지사들의 윤리적 민감성이 갖는 중요성에 대한 인식의 기반 위에서, 이를 측정하고 분석할 수 있는 검사도구를 개발하고 실제에 적용해 보기 위한 것이다. 기존의 윤리적 민감성 척도들과 관련 문헌들을 분석한 결과, 본 연구에서 개발하고자 하는 검사도구에 가장 적절한 방법으로 '비구조화된 상황판단형 지필검사방식 및 구조화된 채점방식'을 도출할 수 있었다. 이와 같은 방식의 척도를 개발하기 위하여 1단계 사례수집, 2단계 사례구성, 3단계 사례자문, 4단계 예비조사, 5단계 채점 지침작성, 6단계 최종사례 및 채점기준 확정 순으로 연구를 진행하였으며, 그 결과 세 가지 사례로 구성된 측정도구 SWEST를 개발하였다. 그리고 이 검사도구의 활용성을 보기 위하여 사회복지전공생과 사회복지실무자의 실제 응답내용을 분석하였으며 이러한 결과를 통해 SWEST가 사회복지사의 윤리적 민감성과 그에 관한 의미 있는 차이를 구분해 낼 수 있는 신뢰성과 타당성을 갖추었는지를 살펴보았다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.737-745
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• 2022

본 연구는 간호대학생의 주관적 행복감, 윤리적 민감성, 공감 능력 및 인성에 대해 알아보고 인성에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하기 위해 시행된 서술적 조사연구이다. 연구 대상자는 경기도에 소재한 일개 간호학과에 재학 중인 학생 165명으로, 자료수집은 2020년 9월 9일부터 10월 18일까지 온라인 설문조사 방식으로 실시되었다. 연구 결과 간호대학생의 주관적 행복감, 윤리적 민감성, 공감능력, 행복감의 평균은 각 5.11±1.03점, 4.33±.38점, 3.83±.42점, 4.09±.39점이었다. 인성은 주관적 행복감, 윤리적 민감성, 공감능력과 유의한 양적 상관관계에 있었다. 간호대학생의 인성에 영향을 미치는 요인은 전공만족도, 주관적 행복감, 윤리적 민감성으로 이들 변수의 전체 설명력은 52.8%였다. 본 연구 결과를 토대로 인성에 대한 설명력이 높은 윤리적 민감성, 주관적 행복감과 전공만족도를 고려한 교육프로그램 개발이 필요하다.