Korean Journal of Medical Ethics

The Korean Society for Medical Ethics

Korean J Med Ethics 2001; 4(2):195-214

pISSN: 2005-8284, eISSN: 2234-3598

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35301/ksme.2001.4.2.195

Article

간호학생이 경험한 의료현장의 윤리적 문제

정민¹

The Ethical Problems experienced by Nursing Students in Hospital Setting

Min JUNG¹

¹제주한라대학 간호학과

¹Department of Nursing, Cheju Halla College

ⓒ Copyright 2001 The Korean Society for Medical Ethics. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Dec 31, 2001

ABSTRACT

Background : The recent increasing concern about the medical ethics has resulted in many discussions on issues related to biomedical ethics. However, many other ethical issues that can be found in Korean hospital settings still tend to be ignored.

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to understand the ethical problems occurred in hospital settings through analyzing situations experienced by nursing students.

Results : Nursing students encountered many situations where the human rights were violated. The ethical problems related to clients’ rights were as follows: interfered clients' privacy; not receiving sufficient information; clients' rights of life not bing respected; unfair nursing service; not receiving holistic care. The other problems were such as nurses not being respected by doctors and clients, and nursing students not being respected by nurses during their practice sessions. So nursing students experienced ethical conflicts and dilemmas.

Conclusion : This study showed that the medico-ethical vitality has to be recovered and the discussion on these issues needs to be done in a more comprehensive way.

Keywords: 의료윤리문제; 간호학생의 경험; 윤리적 갈등

Keywords: Ethical Problem; Nursing Student's Experience; Ethical Conflict