• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.583-595
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• 2014

Hospitals in Korea have been increasingly using physician assistants (PA) as an alternative way of dealing with the shortage of residents. However, some incidents of a Physician's Assistant practicing beyond their legal scope require closer examination of the current PA's roles and functions. This study is a web-based survey designed towards targeting physician assistants in Korea (KPA) who practice delegated tasks under a physician's license. Currently, there are 2,125 KPAs working in 141 general hospitals and medical centers. Data from 704 nurses from who responded to the questionnaire were analyzed with descriptive statistics using the SPSS 12.0 program. Their mean age is 32.5 years with 8-10 years of clinical experiences, with males being more likely to be a PA. Despite of KPAs providing medical services and performing invasive procedures, only 13% of KPAs are licensed APNs (advanced practice nurse). KPAs have a low job satisfaction due to a lack of rewards and the necessity for providing illegal practices, and are experiencing identity confusion. The current KPA system is a transitional product of the change from the hierarchial structure to a more collaborative relationship between the medical and nursing departments. Providing adequate education and training, establishing protocols with legal protection, and developing professional independent scope of care are recommended to deliver safe and efficient medical services.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.69-82
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• 2020

This study is a descriptive research study to compare the safety perception between patients and nurses and to identify the factors affecting the nurses' safety management activities in tertiary hospitals. Data were collected with structured questionnaires from 147 patients and 147 nurses from a university hospital in J city, Gyeongnam, from July 24 to September 23, 2019, and analyzed using SPSS 23.0. The result showed that the patient's safety perception was significantly higher than the nurse's perception. The significant factors affecting patient management activity were nurse's educational level, position, effective communication, patient safety perception, and perception of importance on patient safety management. In the multiple regression analysis, knowledge about 'effective communication', and 'concerned about patient safety management', explained 54.8% of the nurses' patient management activity. Based on the results of this study, it is emphasized that nurses need to develop strategies to improve the communication and attention between patients and hospital members to improve patient safety management activities in tertiary hospitals.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.6-8
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• 1993

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.798-809
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between image of nurses and nursing professional values in nursing students. Data were collected through self reported structured questionnaire using convenient sampling methods survey from 147 students enrolled in the nursing department from March 11 to March 22, 2013. There was a significant difference in the image of nurses on the club activities, satisfaction with major, satisfaction with college life. There was a significant difference in the nursing professional values according to the satisfaction with major. Image of nurses has positively correlation with nursing professional values. 'Social participation' domain of image of nurses has a strong positive correlation with nursing professional values. 'Self concept of profession' domain of nursing professional values has a strong positive correlation with image of nurses. Therefore, it is thought that developing various teaching strategies, promoting club activities, paying attention to the student, and guiding them for raising degree of satisfaction with major and college life would be helpful to improve nurse' image and nursing professional values of nursing students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.124-132
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• 2017

This study is a descriptive study comparing the nursing work environment, job stress and turnover intention of pediatric ward nurses and general ward nurses. The subjects of this study were 174 nurses with more than one year of experience working in small hospitals, general hospitals and university hospitals with more than 200 beds in G-city. Data collection was conducted from August 2016 using structured questionnaires to measure nursing work environment, job stress and turnover intentions. Results: There were no significant differences in nursing work environment between pediatric ward nurses and general ward nurses, and there were significant differences in job stress. Especially, the more nursing work environment of pediatric ward nurses was, the higher the job stress, the higher the turnover intention. In other words, pediatric ward nurses are more likely to have higher job stress than regular ward nurses because they are stressed not only from the health problems of the child but also from the family members. Therefore, communication and self-achievement that can reduce the job stress of the pediatric ward nurse and a variety of measures are needed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.276-284
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• 2012

This study aimed to identify the relationship between moral distress and turnover intention among hospital nurses. The participants were 281 hospitals nurses. The moral distress scale and the turnover intention scale for nurses were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 15.0 program. The mean score of moral distress was 3.08 and that of turnover intention was 5.09. Statistically significant differences were found in moral distress according to age (F = 5.87, p = .003), education level (F = 11.50, p < .001), nursing experience (F = 7.00, p <. 001) and department of duty (F = 3.81, p =. 005). Statistically significant differences were found in turnover intention according to age (F = 11.54, p <. 001) and nursing experience (F = 5.87, p = .001). Moral distress was positively correlated with turnover intention (r = .29, p < .001). The findings suggest that programs aimed at decreasing moral distress and turnover intention should be developed. Furthermore, future studies should explore variables that influence moral distress.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.230-235
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the stress from work and stress coping methods of hospital nurses. The study design was a descriptive survey research. There were a total of 168 hospital nurses included in this study. Data were analyzed by t test, ANOVA (Sheffe's test), and Pearson's correlation coefficient using SPSS/WIN17.0. The stress level from work was 4.27 and stress coping methods was 2.67. Marital status was positively correlated with education level, current department, career duration, and current position. The education level was positively correlated with career period and current position. Current position was positively correlated with stress coping methods. A further follow-up study on nurses in hospital is necessary to relieve stress from work and to increase better stress coping methods. Moreover, to decrease the stress from work of nurses, it is necessary to develop a program that helps them to cope with stress. In addition, these findings contribute to the development of such program.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.292-304
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigates the relationship among nurses' organizational culture, verbal abuse by doctor and nurse, job stress. A survey using a structured questionnaire was conducted with 235 nurses of 4 hospitals. Collected data were analyzed with mean, standard deviation, t-test, correlation analysis, stepwise multiple regression. This study reported the culture is different depending on the hospitals. And relation-oriented culture had a significant positive correlation to verbal abuse by doctor and nurse and innovation for verbal abuse by doctor. Respectively showing explanatory power job stress score serving as the major predictor variable for relation-oriented culture and verbal abuse by nurse 6.5%. The results of this study suggest that type of organizational culture should be regarded as important factors of job stress and verbal abuse. The results imply that hospital administrators should pay attention to the organizational culture to decrease their job stress through effective communication programs.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.135-145
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• 2017

The purpose of the study is to investigate the converging factors influencing communication competence, nursing service quality and satisfaction, A self-reported questionnaire was filled out from August 1 to October 15, 2016 and the study subjects were 193 patients and 184 nurses. The IBM SPSS version 23.0 statistics program was used for analysis of the collected data. Significant factors influencing patients' perception of nursing service satisfaction were occupation, the nurse's communication skills, and nursing service quality, with a total explanatory power of 78.5%. Significant factors influencing nurses' perception of nursing service satisfaction were age, the nurse's communication skills, and nursing service quality, with a total explanatory power of 70.6%. The results of this study will be helpful in individual treatment for satisfaction of nursing service. To improve nursing service satisfaction, educational programs need to be developed that can enhance continuous communication skills and nursing service quality.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.213-224
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• 2015

The purpose of the study was to investigate the attitudes towards death and euthanasia of Nurses and Nursing students live in convergence era. The participants were 380 nurses and nursing students and data were collected from May until June of 2014. The data were collected by means of self reported questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics t-test, one-way ANOVA and Scheffe test with the SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. The result showed that the fear of death of others with nursing students was higher than nurses (t=-3.34, p=.001) and nursing students supported euthanasia more than nurses(t=-3.06, p=.002). Among the death attitude, both of the nurses and the nursing students had the highest score 'fear of their own dying' and the lowest score 'fear of the dying of others'. Regarding attitude to euthanasia, both of them the most important factor was 'the right of the client'. These results suggest that death education program to deal with nursing services without ethical conflicts should be developed.