This study was a descriptive investigative study to identify the biomedical ethics consciousness and nursing professionals of general hospital nurses and to determine the factors affecting their attitudes toward advance directives. The subjects of thi...
This study was a descriptive investigative study to identify the biomedical ethics consciousness and nursing professionals of general hospital nurses and to determine the factors affecting their attitudes toward advance directives. The subjects of this study were nurses with more than a year of experience working at two general hospitals with 300 to 500 beds in Gyeonggi-do, and 145 people who understood the purpose of the study and agreed to participate in the study, and analyzed a total of 132 people, excluding 13 insufficient respondents. Data collection was conducted for a total of seven days from December 1, 2020 to December 7, 2020. Biomedical ethics consciousness is a tool modified and supplemented by Kwon Seon-ju (2003) on Lee Young-sook (1990)'s ethical values questionnaire, Nursing professionals are tools developed by Yoon Eun-ja and others (2005), The attitude toward advance directives was developed by Nolan and Bruder (1997) and developed, The same author used a tool translated by Lee Min-hye and Park Yeon-hwan (2014) for the Advance Directives Attitude Survey (ADAS), which was modified and supplemented in 2003.
The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS statistics 25 statistics program as frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson's Correction Coefficients, and entermethod Multiple Line Registration.
The results of this study are as follows
1. The general characteristics of those surveyed are 99.2% for women, 59.8% for those in their 20s, 80.3% for unmarried people, 56.1% for 'no' for religion, 77.3% for four-year or more, 81.1% for general nurses, 34.1% of the total work experience "more than 3 years and less than 7 years, 35.6% of the current department's experience in "more than 4 years", 48.5% of the internal medicine ward in the work department and 94.7% of the terminally ill patients' nursing experience.
2. The biomedical ethics consciousness of the study subjects averaged 2.85 ± 0.25 out of 4. In the sub-region, the right to life of a newborn is 3.10±0.51 points, organ transplant 3.07±0.38 points, fetal life rights 3.00±0.65 points, fetal diagnosis is 2.94±0.42 points, artificial insemination of 2.81±0.52 points, euthanasia of 2.76±0.40 points, human biotechnology of 2.76±0.34 points, artificial abortion with 2.60 ± 0.46 and brain death with 2.59 ± 0.29. The nursing professionals in the study averaged 2.80 ± 0.30 out of 5. In the sub-region, professional self-concepts 3.71±0.53 point, nurse trade 3.70±0.62 points, social perception 2.28±0.41 points, the identity of nursing 2.23±0.67 points, and professionalism in nursing 2.08±0.34 points. The attitude of the study subjects to advance directives was 2.86 ± 0.28 out of an average of 4.
3. Among the general characteristics of the researchers, significant differences in the biomedical ethics consciousness were found in age, marital status, religion, and total work experience, there was no significant difference from nursing professionals, significant differences in attitudes toward advance directives were shown by age, work department, and end-of-life care experience.
4. As a result of analyzing the correlation between the biomedical ethics consciousness, nursing professionals, and advance directives of the study subjects, the attitudes of nursing professionals and advance directives showed significant definition correlation.
5. In order to determine the factors that affect the advance directives of the study subjects, input multiple regression analysis including age, work department, term patient nursing experience, biomedical ethics consciousness, and nursing professionals was found to have a significant impact.
Considering the results of this study, the factors that affect the attitude of advance directives were surgical ward and nursing professionals, nurses working in surgical ward, and nursing professionals, the higher the attitude of advance directives.
Therefore, the establishment of a high level of nursing professionals can lead to a positive attitude toward advance directives. Improved attitudes toward advance directives by nurses will give patients and guardians the opportunity to get accurate information about the deaths of them and their families and make positive choices. It is also believed that nurses who treat patients and caregivers will be able to provide high-quality care with a proper attitude toward advance directives.