2013, Vol.14, No.1

Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1598-0324
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kba

This study was performed to evaluate the effects of bioethics education on the consciousness of bioethics of freshman nursing and health students, and to find ways to improve bioethics education. In this descriptive research, Subjects were 86 bioethics class students and 83 non-bioethics class students at a university in korea. The average scores for consciousness of bioethics in bioethics class students was 3.05, and in non-bioethics class students, 2.98. When differences in the consciousness of bioethics of bioethics class students and non-bioethics class students were compared, human biotechnology, euthanasia, artificial abortion were equally lower rank. Variable which influenced consciousness of bioethics was individual mortality.

An effort in human enhancement is happening all around our daily life, and it is no surprise to see the usage of cognitive enhancing drugs for that purpose. This paper will focus on linking virtue ethics with cognitive enhancement, in order to better use the technology of cognitive enhancement for human beings. According to the virtue ethics, human beings can achieve eudaimonia through fulfillment of moral and epistemic virtues. However, due to biological limitations, human beings have difficulties in developing ethical and cognitive virtues. And the lack of moral and epistemic virtues leads to a disturbance in our ability to make decisions leading to a Good Life. In other words, the usage of cognitive enhancing drugs can help us overcome our biological restrictions in developing moral and epistemic virtues. As a result, human beings will be able to recognize what type of enhancement is really needed to lead humanity to a good and happy life.

Purpose : This study was to identify of relationship among Biomedical ethics, Job satisfaction and nursing performance in order to examine nurses’ ethical recognition. Methods : The subjects were 196 registered nurses who were working in general hospital over 100 beds in D city. The data were collected from August 15 to 30, 2012 by using the self-reported questionnaires. The Data was analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Results : The average point were the biomedical ethics 3.01, Job satisfaction 2.93 and nursing performance 4.08. As a result of biomedical ethics, job satisfaction and nursing performance due to nursing characteristics of subjects, subject who answered nursing was the best job was 3.16 in biomedical ethics. The biomedical ethics and nursing performance was significantly different, but job satisfaction and nursing performance was not significantly different. The 11 factors of job satisfaction explained 33%, and the influence factor of job satisfaction were Euthanasia, Hospice and nursing performance. Conclusion : Nurses made recognised that nursing was the best job in order to improve of job satisfaction and biomedical ethics. The factor among biomedical ethics and job satisfaction and nursing performance were relationship. Futhermore, it is necessary to take efforts as a whole to increase nurses’ Job satisfaction and nursing performance with biomedical ethics.