• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.527-538
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the Data of Continuing Nursing Education(CNE) in Seoul from 2008 to 2012. The subjects were collected from the data of Seoul Nurses Association. Descriptive statics, t-test, ANOVA were performed using SPSS 12.0 program for a total of 165,759 subjects' data. The number of continuing education recipients increased about 28% by the year of 2012. Over 50% of subjects worked at advanced hospitals and about 80% of subjects received education in self-developed program type. According to years since licensed, more than half(55.5%) of the subjects were under 7 years since licensed, followed by 4-6years since licensed(18.5%), 2-3years since licensed(16.2%), and 1year since licensed(9.7%). This study showed significant differences in contents, continuing education programs, workplace, type of continuing education. The findings of this study will contribute to identifying current trends of continuing education for nurses and provide fundamental data for developing continuing nurses education.