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- Title
Hospital food Manipulator's Moral Judgment Evaluation of Hand Wash Technique Training.
- Authors
Mas-Treviño, Marcela; Cantú-Martínez, Pedro César; Luna-Gurrola, César Eduardo
- Abstract
Objective: Evaluate moral judgment of hospital food manipulators, in training of the hygienic hand wash. Variables: previous and later moral and social developments, age, gender, scholarship, and seniority. Methodology: An observational, longitudinal, comparative and prospective, non-probabilistic survey, was executed upon 17, third level attention hospital food manipulators in Monterrey, N. L. Including women, aged 18 to 60, attending a three session course with bioethical contents, with an emphasis in hygienic hand wash process, with a total of six hours (required attendance: > 2 sessions). Background: Moral judgment (Kohlberg), allows human beings to discern between good and bad, and also organize life in an intended way, because with his thoughts foretells and impacts not only the decision making in the working area, but also other aspects in life. Moral dilemmas, dialogue, and reflection can develop Moral Judgment. Legal and moral standards are linked as a constitutional value that promotes the proxy and recovery of health in people. Health institutions, as ethical entities, are responsible for broadening the ethical professional conscience of their personnel when promoting courses with a bioethical sense. A course was chosen for this purpose, oriented to kitchen area professionals, reminding them about responsibility in hygienic hand washing, the awareness over food preparation, storage, and service to prevent food-borne infections, as a principle of justice for hospitalized patients. Justice and responsibility, considered as the most important biomedical principles of Beauchamp and Childress, and care ethics (Gilligan), are expressed in hygienic hand washing procedures.
- Subjects
MORAL judgment; HAND washing; HYGIENE; HEALTH behavior research; HOSPITAL food service
- Publication
Eubios Journal of Asian & International Bioethics, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 3, p106
- ISSN
1173-2571
- Publication type
Article