Abstract
Our study was designed to investigate a ethical dilemmas in the maternal care units. Our questionnaires were consisted with two main ethical issues. 1) Nurses those who feel ethical dilemmas: (1) What is your ethical dilemmas? (2) How do you treat to solve the Problems? 2) Nurses those who do not feel ethical dilemmas: How do you treat the ethical problems when you encounter someday? As a result, 1) The most common ethical dilemmas were: (1) dignity of life 60.3% (2) nursing research in order to provide better nursing care 56.3%. 2) The most common ethical dilemmas in order to solve the problems were: (1) protect our patients 80.7%. (2) do our best 77.6%. 3) The majority ethical issues that you feel the most were: (1) protect our patients 83.9%. (2) do our best 81.4%. 4) How do you feel regarding to the origin of life? (1) at a time of the fertilization 61.8%. (2) eight weeks of pregnancy 18.2%. 5) How do you feel about discrepancy that competing a life between mother and fetus. The answers were: It is very difficult to make decision over the competing issues. Therefore, the answers were "neither mothers life nor fetus". The decision must make in accordance with criterias and cases. And it is necessary for Nursing Education about ethics and ethical dilemmas and so on.
