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This study was conducted to identify factors affecting professionalism of nursing students. This data is meant to be used as a starting point for identifying the educational methods required to build nursing professionalism. From March 18 through April 8, 2022, the subjects of this study were surveyed online through Google. With this, 194 questionnaires were collected from fourth-year students of the nursing department at a university. The analysis revealed a positive correlation between sociability, service, and nursing professionalism, with service having the greatest impact on nursing professionalism (p˂.001). Therefore, it is urgent to prepare a non-regular curriculum program that can cultivate the service of nursing students. Furthermore, it is important to create an educational program that may help nursing students become professionals in the field through a variety of volunteer activities, such as non-face-to-face programs, encouraging voluntary participation, and continuous management © 2022,Journal for ReAttach Therapy and Developmental Diversities. All Rights Reserved.
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This study was conducted to check the extent of nursing professionalism, time pressure, infection control, organizational culture, and the infection control practices of nurses, and to assess the factors that impart an influence on their infection control practices. This is a descriptive survey study aimed at the assessment of factors that impart an influence on the infection control practice of nurses by using a structuralized questionnaire. As the result of this study, the infection control practices of nurses have a positive correlation with the time pressure (r = 0.16, p = 0.034) and the organizational culture for infection control (r = 0.29, p < 0.001). Factors that affect the infection control practices included the organizational culture for infection control (ß = 0.29, p < 0.001) and time pressure (ß = 0.16, p = 0.024), with the explanation power of 10%. It was possible to confirm that the affirmative organizational culture for infection control plays an important role in enhancing the infection control practices of nurses. Accordingly, it is necessary to provide administrative and financial support from the organization, including support by the management and administrators of clinical practices, as well as the provision of required commodities in order for nurses to execute infection control in accordance with the prescribed regulations.
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BACKGROUND: Ethical sensitivity is a prerequisite for ethical nursing practices. Efforts to improve nurses' ethical sensitivity are required to correctly recognise ethical conflicts and for sound decision-making. Because an emerging infectious disease response involves complex ethical issues, it is important to understand the factors that influence public health nurses' ethical sensitivity while caring for patients with COVID-19, an emerging infectious disease. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to identify the relationship between nursing professionalism, the organisation's ethical climate, and the ethical sensitivity of nurses who care for emerging infectious disease patients in Korean public health centres. Further, it sought to identify factors influencing ethical sensitivity and the mediating effect of the organisational ethical climate to inform guidelines and improve ethical sensitivity. RESEARCH DESIGN: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. PARTICIPANTS AND RESEARCH CONTEXT: Data were collected from February 3 to 8 March 2021. Participants included 167 nurses caring for patients with COVID-19 in public health centres in South Korea. ETHICAL CONSIDERATION: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Chung-Ang University and followed the principles of research ethics. RESULTS: The factors influencing ethical sensitivity were working at a COVID-19 disease direct response department, nursing professionalism, and organisation's ethical climate. The organisation's ethical climate showed a partial mediating effect on the influence of nursing professionalism on ethical sensitivity. CONCLUSION: Our findings show that nurses' ethical sensitivity can be improved by refining the organisation's ethical climate and nursing professionalism.