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Analysis of nursing activities in ambulatory units of secondary and tertiary hospitals (종합병원${\cdot}$종합전문요양기관의 외래 간호활동 분석 연구)

  • Sung, Young-Hee;Park, Jeong-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.5-18
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    • 2003
  • Purpose : For improvement of nursing services in ambulatory unit, ambulatory nursing activity was identified and the required time by nursing activity was measured. Method : The data were collected from 4 tertiary hospitals and 2 secondary hospitals. The method of data collection was used the self-reporting method. The 123 nurse-work days and 137 nurse-aid-work days in 6 hospitals were analyzed. Results : As a result, 11 ambulatory nursing domains and 79 ambulatory nursing activities were confirmed. Above 50% of subjects performed the general outpatient affair domain. The percentage of total time spent in each domain were as follows : general outpatient affair domain, 58.3%, patient education ${\cdot}$ counseling domain, 10.8%, therapeutic care domain, 8.6% and so on. And the average hours were measured by activity and domain. Conclusion : For the improvement of ambulatory nursing care, the strategies that keep the legal standard of number of ambulatory nurse and exchange the nursing-aid for the nurse is needed. And it is also needed to standardize the ambulatory nursing services.

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The Influence of Physician's Assistants on National Health Insurance Revenue and Number of Patients in Clinic (의원 의료보조인력이 건강보험 진료비와 환자수에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Suk-Ju;Kim, Sang-A;Park, Woong-Sub
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.18-32
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was a quantitative analysis for the influence of physician's assistants on national health insurance revenue and number of patients in clinic. The data was derived from the Korean national health insurance. That was complete enumeration. Dependent variables were measured by national health insurance revenue and number of patients. Independent variables were reported physician's assistants that the number of nurse, nurse-aid, technologist of clinical laboratory, physical therapist and radiologist in clinic. Confounding variables were classified by demand(region, number of inhabitants, number of clinics, number of bed per a hundred thousand persons) and supply(sex and age of representative, number of bed, subjective of medical treatment). On the multiple regression analyses, the physician's assistants that nurse, nurse-aid, technologist of clinical laboratory and physical therapist were statistically significant for outputs. But radiologist was statistically significant only for number of patient.

A study on revised direction of the school health act for first aid instructor qualification (응급처치 교육 강사 자격요건에 대한 학교보건법 개정 방향에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Won;Kang, Min Seong
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to suggest the qualification criteria for the instructors of first aid education for teachers in the School Health Act. Methods: We compared and analyzed the approval provisions for qualifying as first aid educators under the School Health Act, the Emergency Medical Services Act, and prior studies of first aid education. Results: The comparison of the studies demonstrated some key points. First, the first aid education of teachers could be improved through the knowledge of professional instructors. Second, the doctors, emergency nurse practitioners, and emergency medical technicians (EMT) were suitable as specialized first aid instructors. Third, for qualifying as first aid instructor, only the EMTs required more than five years of career. Conclusion: We suggest that all emergency medical service providers qualify to become first aid educators. Additionally, the requirement of EMTs to have more than 5 years of career to qualify as an instructor should be eliminated.