Review of the Journal of Korean Nursing Administration Academic Society and its research trends

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This study was designed to analyze all the papers that were in the Journal of the Korean Nursing Administration Academic Society from the first publication edition (1995) to 2000. Analyses methods are research designs, data collection methods, research subjects and key words. all papers were 145. The results of the study are as follows : First, research designs, nonexperimentals are 106 papers, experimentals are 9, qualitatives are 9 papers. Research subjects that all subjects in each paper were accepted are as follows, hospital staffs including nurses, doctors, and other employees are 115 paper(59.28%), adults including patient's family, medical, nursing students are 44 papers(22.68%), informatic systems including medical record sheets, database, and management system are 8 papers(4.12%), others including country, literature, researches are 21 papers(10.82%). Second, data collection methods that all methods in each paper were accepted that questionnaires are 93 papers(57.76%), interviews are 13 papers(8.07%), observations are 10 papers(6.21%), scale & psycholgical are 8 papers(4.97%), and self-reportings are 6 papers(3.73%), etc. Conclusion : Even though research topics are various, the fields of informatics and financial management are poor. Therefore studying for those fields and its practical implication are needed.