• Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.64-81
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify manpower acquisition strategies of nurse and nurse aide in long-term care Method: The study was proceed using following three stages: to explore workforce status and labor environment with database analysis, literature reviews, to explore the best practices, practical experiences with expert interviews, with focus group interview, to identify problems and present acquisition strategies Results: Acquisition strategies were increasing of pay, improvement of working condition, development of practical educational program, diversification of entry paths, establishing clear roles for nursing staffs, diversification of training program. Conclusion: We found that the acquisition strategies of nurse and nurse aide can be as an useful methods to increase manpower in long-term care for higher quality of services and care.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.528-538
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• 2004

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the level of awareness about health education in the manpower of public health center. in order to suggest a basis data for the development of a job-training program. Method: The subjects were 96 manpowers of public health centers. Data were collected from August 2nd. 2002 to September 20th using a self reported questionnaire survey. The data were analyzed using frequency. percentile and $x^2-test$. Results: The most necessary of health education according to health promotion service is 'quitting smoking' during the adolescent period. The most necessary of health education media according to health promotion service is 'reducing alcohol intake'. The most efficient media of health education is 'beam projector'. The most necessary capacity of health educator is 'planning capacity of health education'. The most necessary support implementing health education is 'manpower supply'. Conclusion: The level of awareness of health education in the manpower of the public health center are expected to provide basic data for developing job-training programs that might improve advanced knowledge and techniques of health education.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.327-335
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• 2011

Purpose: The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of medical staffing level as bed-to-medical staff ratio on patient outcomes as length of stay (LOS) among hospitals in Korea. Methods: Two hundred and fifty one hospitals participated in the study between January and March 2008. Data for the study was requested by an electronic data interchange from the Health Insurance Review Agency in 2008. In data analysis, SPSS WIN 15.0 program was utilized for descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression. Results: The mean score for length of stay was 13.6 days. The mean of operating bed-to-nurse ratio was 7.93:1. The predicting factors for LOS were bed-to-nurse's aide ratio, bed-to doctor's ratio, severely ill patient rate, and hospital type. These factors explained 28.9% of the variance in patient outcomes. Conclusion: This study results indicate that the relationship between medical staffing level and patient outcomes is important in the improvement of the quality of patient care. Thus, improvements in the quality of the nurse practice environment could improve patient outcomes for hospitalized patients.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.593-602
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• 2019

The healthcare industry, a high-value-added business, continues to grow with the aging of the population and the development of convergence medical technology. In particular, the medical tourism industry is being pushed by advanced countries. Korea is also actively supporting projects to attract international patients. However, there is a lack of prior research on Korea's medical interpreter policy. This study analyzes the current status and problems of medical interpreter policy for international patients, and presents the task. Problems include insufficient policy control towers, lack of links with local governments, lack of expertise of medical interpreters, poor quality of medical interpreting services, and poor treatment of medical interpreters. As improvement measures, it is proposed to establish a policy control tower, strengthen the link with local governments, switch to a medical interpreter system, diversify the language of medical interpreting qualification test, improve the quality of medical interpreting service, internalize the training process for medical interpreter, give preferential treatment to medical interpreters, utilize the nurse, and train multicultural medical personnel. I hope that this study will contribute to the development of the medical tourism industry.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 2008

Recently, ere are many researches to improve the quality of e medical service such as Point of care (POC). To improve the quality of the medical service, not only good medical device but also more man power is required. Especially, the number of nurses are very few in Korea that is almost the lowest rank compared to OECD countries. If the simple repetition works of the nurse could be removed, it is possible to use the skillful nurse for other works and provide better quality services. There are many simple repetition works which the nurses have to do, such as replacing the ringer's solution. To replace the ringer's solution automatically, it is necessary to detect residual quantity of the ringer's solution. In this paper, image processing is used to detect the residual quantity of ringer's solution, and modified self quotient image (SQI) algorithm is used to strong background lights. After modified SQI algorithm, the simple histogram accumulation is done to find the residual quantity of the ringer's solution. The implemented algorithm could be use to replace the ringer's solution automatically or alarm to the nurses to replace the solution.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.463-471
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• 2021

This study was conducted on nursing staff at care hospitals to confirm the mediating effect of health beliefs between the knowledge of nosocomial infections management and the execution of nosocomial infections management. This study was carried out on nurses and assistant nurses working at five care hospitals located in Busan, and finally 212 questionnaires were analyzed through SPSS 25.0 and SPSS Procee Macro. The results of the study showed that knowledge of nosocomial infections management is significant in the execution of nosocomial infections management(B=2.90, p<.001), and the influence of health beliefs was shown to be significant as well(B=.52, p<.001). Knowledge of nosocomial infections management has a direct effect on the execution of nosocomial infections management, and was also shown to have an indirect effect on the execution of nosocomial infections management through health beliefs, confirming partial mediating effects. This study is significant in that it provides the baseline data necessary for the effective execution of nosocomial infections management of nursing organizations in care hospitals by verifying the mediating effects of health beliefs in terms of the effects of knowledge of nosocomial infections management perceived by nurses and assistant nurses working in care hospitals on the execution of nosocomial infections management.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.44-52
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• 1999

This investigation & study has been made in oder to revitalilize the health care for the elderly in public health centers. The date subject, including 88 persons in charge health services in public heal centers, were from Chejudo. These were largely female, the average age was 38.4 at the health center. Their responsibilities included home visitation, nutrition management for the early, health education, and physical therapy. The most important problem were personal management and a lack of facilities, especially in home visitation, health education, physical therapy. Systematic networks of various activities are needed to encourage not only the patient but also volunteer who will also take part in these services. The numbers of members in charge of the elderly are not only to be increased and educate with facilities and equipment but also better provided with proper facilities and equipment. This is the best way to conduct health services the elderly.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.76-85
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• 2008

Purpose: The purpose of this study were to explore workplace violence experiences and to analyze differences of violence experiences based on the department and harmers to nurses in hospitals. Method: Data were collected from the self-reported survey of 496 nurses and nurse aids in three hospitals in D area in Korea from April to May in 2007. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis using SPSS Win 12.0. Result: The nurses in hospitals experienced offensive verbal abuse (88.4%), verbal threat (36.5%), physical violence (24.5%), serious physical violence (2.2%), and sexual harrassment (25.7%) during last one year in hospitals. Nursing staffs in hospital demonstrated different violent experiences by age and service areas. Conclusion: These findings revealed high rates of violence experiences of nursing staffs in hospital. Thus, hospitals should develop policies, guidelines, and programs for preventing and managing workplace violence.

• Quality Improvement in Health Care
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.83-93
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• 2021

Purpose: This study tested the effectiveness of brochure- and video-based education on managing surgical site infections by operating room health personnel. Methods: From April 20 to May 4, 2021, 34 operating room health personnel were subjected to training on surgical site infection management using brochures and educational videos. A survey was then conducted on knowledge, perception, and adherence regarding surgical site infection management. Results: After receiving training on surgical site infection management, the knowledge score increased significantly (15.15±2.09 vs.19.70±1.96, p<.001). However, the perception and adherence scores were already near perfect before the intervention and did not further increase after the intervention. Conclusion: It is necessary to develop and utilize continuous and substantive educational programs to improve perception and adherence of surgical site infection management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.326-327
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• 2022

This study is an algorithm for clinical decision-making using machine learning, and it is an algorithm to classify pressure sores to be used in the development of a system to help prevent pressure sores when nursing staff care for patients who lie down for a long time. As a result of machine learning, the learning accuracy of the algorithm was 82.14% and the test accuracy was 82.58%.