Thesis (Th. M.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-193).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-171).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2005. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-193).

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<p>This thesis is an attempt to show that religion is neither irrelevant nor antithetical to ethics; it aims, ultimately, to recover the significance of religion for ethics. The germ of this project is threefold. First, it is grounded in the conviction that religion holds significance for moral discourse and that this relevance is not sufficiently acknowledged in philosophical ethics. Furthermore, philosophical ethics is considered unsatisfying insofar as it seems that being moral is not simply a matter of good, rational decision-making (though moral existence entails this). Finally and most importantly, the focus on the moral "agent" and the language of "praise and blame" seems to indicate an implicit egoism, which jars with moral virtue. This last conviction and the turn to otherness in postmodern thought allow me to build a bridge from secular philosophical ethics to a religious ethic of attention. My argument is that religion enables us to become more other-centered, an ethos that is putatively central to postmodern thought, insofar as religion or, more precisely, religious faith is the practice of attentive looking (to GOd). I have thus suggested that the tum to "the other" in contemporary ethics can be realized by the looking of prayer and worship. I have engaged with two thinkers in the attempt to think this idea through: feminist philosopher of religion Grace Jantzen and French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. Weil provides a discussion of attention as the activity of grace, and will, which she understands as the dominating activity of the self; this distinction allows me to explore the possibility that religion or religious faith leads to a transformed, less egoistic, ethic. Moreover, it is Weil's understanding of faith as "waiting for God" which enables me, ultimately, to establish the connection between attending to God (religious faith) and responding appropriately to the other (ethics).</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

The primary purpose of this study was to test the theory of experiential learning by measuring to what extent work experience predicts the work ethic characteristics of students in baccalaureate nursing programs at three regional universities in Texas, including Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Tarleton State University in Stephenville, and West Texas A&M University in Canyon. Work experience is the amount full-time or part-time on-the-job experience. Work ethic attributes are referred to as considerate, ambitious, dependable, and cooperative. Results generated in this study failed to reject the null hypotheses, which means that work experience, does not provide evidence of the ability to predict the development of work ethic characteristics in baccalaureate nursing students who participated in this research study. Knowledge generated in this study provided alternative directions for future research with respect to the relationship between work experiences and work ethic characteristics in nursing students. Such research may be useful to nursing educators and trainers in the design and delivery phases of the educational process for nurses.

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A escassa bibliografia acerca deste tema motivou-nos a desenvolver este estudo.Os objetivos foram: verificar o entendimento dos enfermeiros membros da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem (CEE) acerca do conceito de ética; investigar quais foram as dificuldades encontradas na implantação da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem; levantar como tem sido a atuação da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem, visando o cumprimento do seu papel e conhecer as estratégias utilizadas para o desenvolvimento do trabalho da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem. Tratou-se de uma abordagem qualitativa, exploratória, descritiva, realizada em quatro hospitais de um município do interior paulista. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 18 (dezoito) enfermeiras, membros da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem nos respectivos hospitais. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevista utilizando um roteiro norteador contendo questões abertas. A técnica utilizada para inferência sobre os resultados foi baseada na análise de conteúdo de Bardin (1977). Pudemos apreender que o perfil das entrevistadas não foi fator determinante para sua participação ou não, na fase de implantação da CEE. O conceito de ética foi manifestado sob vários aspectos, desde a forma em que se refere apenas ao ponto de vista da moral até uma somatória de valores individuais e sociais, imprescindíveis para o relacionamento interpessoal. As dificuldades apontadas para a implantação foram principalmente a falta de entendimento do regimento proposto pelo COREN-SP, mais especificamente do papel que a CEE teria que desempenhar, falta de tempo para participar das reuniões e o receio de alguns profissionais em participar da CEE, especialmente pela sua conotação punitiva. As estratégias utilizadas para a atuação acompanharam, de certa forma, o estágio de desenvolvimento em que cada Comissão se encontrava. Algumas se mostraram ainda incipientes, cumprindo o mínimo indispensável para justificar sua existência, outras investindo em parcerias intersetoriais a fim de mostrar sua importância. / The scarse bibliography about this theme motivated us to develop this study. The goals were: To check out the nurses members of Nursing Ethics Committee understanding about the concept of ethics, to investigate the likely difficulties found in the implantation of Nursing Ethics Committee, evaluate the acting of this Committee, aiming the meeting of its role and to know some strategies used to develop the Nursing Ethics Committee work. It is about a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive approach made in four hospitals in one county of São Paulo State. The Subjects of the research were 18 (eighteen) women nurses members of the Nursing Ethics Committee in these hospitals. The data were obtained through interviews using norms to be followed with open questions. The technique used to infer about the results was based in the Bardin Contents analysis (1977). We could learn that the interviewed ones´ profile was not a determining factor to their participation or not in the CEE implatation phase. The Ethics Concept was shown up under several aspects since the way in which, just the moral point of view was referred, until to the set of social and individual values fundamental to the interpersonal relationship. The difficulties pointed to the implantation were mainly the lack of understanding of the regiment proposed by COREN -SP , specifically the role that CEE would be supposed to play, lack of time to take part in the meetings, and some professionals´ fear of taking part of CEE specially by its punitive connotation. The strategies of action used follow in some way, the level of developing in which each committee was. Some appeared to be at the very beginning doing the minimal required to justify their existence, others investing in intersectorials partnerships to show their importance.