• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.105-111
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• 2019

A medical personnel could be placed beside a patient together in CT room to do Ambu-bag for a seriously ill patients or emergency patient. At this time, the medical personnel can be exposed indirect radiation unnecessarily. In this case, it is necessary to recognize indirect radiation dose levels and methods to reduce them using actual clinical CT protocols such as Chest, Abdomen, and Brain CT. We researched surface radiation dose with or without radiation protectors such as apron and goggles according to different distances far from gantry using two different CT scanners (Fixed MDCT and mobile CT). As a result, for Chest, Abdomen, and Brain CT with Fixed MDCT, indirect radiation dose on thorax portion were 0.047, 0.089, 0.034 mSv without apron. Also, those with apron were 0.007, 0.012, 0.006 mSv. In case of mobile CT, it was 0.014 mSv without apron and 0.005 mSv with apron. By using protectors and increasing the distance, we could reduce it to 97%. Systematic management is necessary based on the measured data in order to minimize radiation damage due to indirect exposure dose.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.75-83
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• 1997

The medical insurance system has been adopted in 1989. Since then, the utilization of medical care services has increased rapidly. It appears that the medical institution needs more nursing manpower such as nurses and nurse aides to meet an increased demand for medical care for the residents. However, the medical care clinics run by a medical practitioners has a more shortage of nursing manpower than hospitals. The purpose of this survey was to analyze the current employment status and to obtain an opinion on the improvement of utilization such as recruitment and retention of nursing manpower. The questionnaire sent to the private physician and the response rate was 28.7% ; 87 out of 300 physicians. 82.6% of the respondents employed nurses aides rather than nurses and an average number of employees per clinic was 2.5 persons. Most physicians had difficulties in recruiting nursing manpower. It took more than one month for replacement on average, therefore, they were suffering from giving good continual care for the patient and also high resignation of nursing personnel. The low wage, long working hours, hard work and lack of incentives are the biggest reasons for the difficulty in recruiting and retaining of the nursing personnel obtained for the clinics survey. The above mentioned problems would be solved in the near future by changing those difficulties. In the meantime, the private physicians are marking an effort to retain the nursing personnel by keeping a relationship of the private physician's cooperatives.

• 의료법학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.141-171
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• 2019

간호사는 의료법 상 의료인으로서 의료기관에서 진료의 보조 등의 업무를 수행한다. 의료인인 간호사는 119 구조·구급에 관한 법률에 근거 구급대원으로서 병원 전 단계 응급의료체계에서 응급환자를 대상으로 응급의료를 제공한다. 병원 전 응급의료체계에서 업무를 수행하는 간호사의 업무범위는 의료법 상 포괄적으로 규정되어 있는 업무를 판례 등을 통해 구체화되어 왔다. 반대로 응급구조사의 업무범위는 응급의료법에 의해 구체적 행위를 열거하는 방식으로 규정되어 있다. 병원 전 단계 응급의료체계에서 응급의료종사자로서 업무를 수행하는 간호사의 업무범위는 대상 환자의 긴급성, 응급의료기관으로의 이송 중이라는 점, 통신 상의 의료지도라는 특수성을 고려하여 간호사의 업무범위를 의료기관 내에서와 달리 적용하여 해석되어야 한다. 따라서 상대적으로 병원 전단계에서 간호사가 응급구조사보다 넓은 업무범위가 인정되고 이것이 정책목표에도 부합된다.

• 의료법학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.173-198
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• 2010

There is a system in Korea named "Advanced Practice Nurse System" qualified by the Minister of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs for Advanced Practice Nurse besides nurse licence. Medical practice is, in today's medical law, understood as a general concept colligating medical practice, nursing practice and midwife practice and so on, for it is defined as a deed of medical technique practiced by medical personnel. Referring to the fact that the Supreme Court recognizes medical personnel as people who have medical expert knowledge, nursing practice can be recognized as a region of medical business and therefore it is not necessary to prescribe nursing practice separately from the definition of medical practice on a precedent, because nurse belongs to medical personnel. According to the precedent regarding 'Unlicensed Medical Practice of Advanced Practice Nurse for Anesthesia' recently sentenced by the Supreme Court, the medical practice is only allowed a doctor because it is 'in need of special knowledge and experience because of high danger on human body' and it is judged to be an unlicensed medical practice prohibited in medical law if it is to be done by a nurse. When considering the actual situation that System for Advanced Practice Nurse for Anesthesia is established under the circumstance that an anesthetist is in want and therefore the operation has not been performed on time, and that it is being expected an anesthetist to be in need, it is necessary to legislate for the range of medical practice of Advanced Practice Nurse so that Advanced Practice Nurse System can be practically legalized, for the role of Advanced Practice Nurse has the great possibility of shrinking because the precedent has considered Advanced Practice Nurse for Anesthesia doing anesthetic operation in clinic today as a potential wrongdoer.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2007

Purpose: In the Korean armed forces, vaccination against tetanus is done when personnel join the military service, but we do not know how many military personnel are vaccinated and how many soldiers have protection against tetanus. We performed a qualitative analysis of the tetanus antibody in Korean military personnel by using the TQS (Tetanus Quick Stick) Methods: This study used a prospective collection method for military personnel visiting to the emergency department of a tertiary armed forces hospital from July 2005 to January 2007. We performed an analysis by using the TQS and asked whether the personnel had been inoculated during military service. Results: The number of enrolled military personnel was 474. Among them, 412 had been vaccinated against tetanus after entering the military service. The positive rate of TQS was 91.3% (373 patients) after vaccination for tetanus. Conclusion: Many military personnel were inoculated with tetanus toxoid during military service and have protective antibodies for tetanus. According as TQS should be used for military personnel who visit the emergency department of an armed forces hospital. Also, anti-tetanus immunoglobulin should not normally be used a positive TQS for tetanus prophylaxis.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.631-648
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• 1993

This study is a descriptive study to provide basic data related to types of uniforms worn by nurses. Nurses, other medical center personnel, patients and their famillies were asked for their opinion on changing nurses’ uniforms and how the image of nurses is 1 elated to the type of uniform worn by the nurses. The data for this study were collected during the period from Feb. 25, 1993 to Mar. 26, 1993 at Y-University Medical Center from 132 nurses, 137 other medical center personnel, 117 patients and their families. The instruments used for this study were the Nurses’ Image Scale(NIS) developed by Bown(1986), and an instrument to measure opinions of uniform and cap using photographs of nurses’ uniforms that was developed by the researcher through a literture review. Data were analyzed using the SPPS / PC package, Statistics used for analysis were frequencies, percentages, paired t -test, and oneway ANOVA The results of this study are summarized as follows ; 1. Of the nurses, 84.3%, along with, 51.5% of the medical center personnel, 39.1% of the patients and their families agreed to a change in the color of nurses uniforms. 2. Similarly, 87.4% of the nurses,27.7% of the medical center personnel, 19.3% of the patients and their families were in favor of nurses not wearing caps. 3. Only 11.8% of nurses answered that a white uniform was important to the professional image of nursing. Only 2.4% of the nurses answered that a cap was very important to the professional image of nursing. 4. Only 1.6% of the nurses answered that a white uniform and cap were important to show the role of nurses in the twenty first century. 5. About 1/3, 36.5%, of the medical center personnel, the patient and their families answered that changing the color of the nurses' uniform will make a change in the image of nurses. 6. A White uniform and cap were seen as being im-portant in distinguishing nurses from other medical personnel in the hospital by 76.5% of the medical personnel, the patients and their families. 7. Nurses gave high marks to the idea of no cap regardless of the color of the uniform which would still portray the symbol of the nurses’ role, identity and would differentiate the role from other jobs. The patients and their families gave high marks to a white uniform with cap. 8. Generally, nurses, medical center personnel and patients and their families thought that a colored uniform with cap presented a good image of nurses. 9. There was a significant difference in the response among the three groups(F=24.65, P〈.001) to the figure in a white uniform with a cap, and the patients and their families thought it was the best portrayal of the image of nurses. There was a significant difference among the three groups(F=9.03, P〈.001) to the figure in a white uniform with no cap and the nurses indicated that it was the beat portrayed of the image of nurses. There was no significant difference among the three groups to the figure in a colored uniform with cap. There was a significant difference(F=17.50, P〈. 001) to the figure in a colored uniform with no cap, and the nurses indicated that it was the best portrayal of the image of nurses. In summary, the nurses wanted to change the color of uniform and not to wear a cap. But many of the medical center personnel, patients and their families indicated they did not agree with this idea. Therefore, changing the type of uniform worn by nurses should be done only after consideration has been given to the relation of the change to the professional role of nurses and the image of nurses held people in general. Suggestions arising from this study are as follows : 1. The relation between the role of nurses and their uniform was surveyed, and these results can be used as data when considering a change in uniforms. 2. A change in uniforms should be tried based on the norm established about uniforms. 3. The nurses did not want to wear a cap, but before a decision is definitely made it is necessary to study the philosophy related to the symbol of the cap because the figure of a nurse with a cap portrayed a positive image of the nurses. If the cap is kept, the symbol of the cap should be redefined. 4. In this study, only the image related to the uniform was examined, but in future studies it will be necessary to examine the practicality of various types of uniforms.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.6234-6241
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• 2014

이 연구의 목적은 의료진의 죽음에 대한 스트레스 정도와 수용 방식을 병원 중심으로 조사하여 의료인 대상 죽음교육프로그램 개발의 기초자료로 활용하는 것이다. 연구기간은 2014년 4월부터 동년 4월30일까지이며, 대전지역 K 대학병원 의료진 353명을 대상으로 조사했다. 분석방법은 빈도분석과 카이스퀘어 검정이며, 연속변수는 독립표본 t-검정을 실시하였다. 분석결과 죽음교육의 내용 중 중요하게 다뤄야 할 것은 시간의 소중함 및 의미 있는 미래 삶 준비였으며(p<0.05), 죽음교육 필요 이유는 죽음에 대한 인식과 태도를 바꿔보기 위해서였다(p<0.05). 죽음교육 방법은 사례연구 문제 기반학습이었으며(p<0.05), 죽음 목격 후 가장 큰 스트레스는 보호자의 의료진에 대한 부정적 반응(p<0.05)으로 나타났다. 이상과 같은 결과를 볼 때 의료진의 죽음에 대한 이해와 죽음교육 필요성 제고는 의료진 자신은 물론 환자에 대한 이해와 감수성 향상에도 기여할 것으로 판단되었다. 죽음에 대한 의료 인문적 시각을 동시에 포함한 본 조사는 병원 공간과 의료진 대상의 특성화된 '죽음교육프로그램 개발'에 기여할 것이다.

• 의료법학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.117-137
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• 2022

오늘날 의료체계는 질병의 치료만을 위한 체계가 아니라 종합적인 건강관리체계(health care system)로 변화하고 있다. 그러나 현행 의료법은 그런 '협업'도 무면허 의료행위라는 일탈행위로 낙인찍고, 의사의 위험관리영역에서 행위한 비의료인은 물론 그와 협업한 의료인까지도 무면허의료행위죄로 처벌하고 있다. 무면허 의료행위를 규제하는 법제도와 의료현실 사이의 간극을 좁히기 위해서는 무면허 의료행위를 이원적이고 국가주의적이며 신분중심적으로 규율하는 구조적 한계를 극복해야 한다. 무면허의료행위죄의 보호법익은 '사람의 생명, 신체'라는 개인적 법익뿐만 아니라 '국가의 의료인면허제도의 유지·보호'라는 국가적 법익으로 이중적 성격을 가지는데, 여기서 유념해야할 것은 형벌을 가하는 본죄들의 규정이 보호하는 법익의 판단기준은 본래 '인격적 법익론'에서 찾아야 한다는 점이다. 그리고 어떤 행위가 의료행위인지 그리고 그 위험성을 판단할 때 행위의 주체(신분)에 편중하지 않고 행위와 수단의 차원을 함께 빠짐없이 형평성 있게 고려해야 한다. 즉 그 행위로 인해 초래될 수 있는 부작용의 위험이 합리적으로 관리되고 있는지에 따라 무면허의료행위에 해당되는지 여부가 좌우되어야 할 것이다. 의료의 본질이 치료자와 환자 간의 상호신뢰와 상호이해가 되어야 함을 일깨우는 치료적 대화의 지평을 고려할 때, 의료법 정책은 다원적 의료인격들 사이에서 일어나는 협업의 가능성을 원천적으로 차단하지 않는 방향으로 나아가야 바람직하다고 할 것이다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.55-66
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• 1990

1. 임종통고에 대한 반대는 노인군과 환자가족군이 40.2%, 40.9%로 환자군과 의료인군의 23.%, 13.3%보다 유의하게 높았다(p<0.001). 2. 임종환자에 대한 의료인의 회피적 태도에서는 의료인군의 44%가 반대하여 전체평균 28.5%보다 유의하게 높았다(p<0.001). 3. 불치병 환자의 생명 연장에 대한 태도에서는 환자군과 보호자군의 반대율이 33.3%, 22.5%로 노인군과 의료인군의 54.5%, 56.0%보다 유의하게 낮았다(p<0.001). 4. 임종환자를 위한 특수시설 및 교육문제에 있어서는 의료인군의 찬성율이 81.3%로 가장 높았고 환자군이 56.8%로 가장 낮았다. 5. 임종환자에 대한 가족의 회피적 태도에 대해서는 노인군의 찬성율이 81.3%로 가장 높았고 가족군이 34%로 가장 낮았다. 6. 임종에 대한 지각문제에 있어서는 의료인군의 찬성율이 77.3%로 전체평균 58.8%보다 높았다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.65-84
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• 2012

Because of the rising healthcare costs, there is a growing need for developing efficiency indicators for medical resources use and measuring efficiency of healthcare providers and healthcare systems using them. In this study, we aimed to develop efficiency indicators for medical resources use by means of Delphi technique. We systematically reviewed the existing measures of medical resource use. Thirty nine indicators were selected as a candidates across the six domains: medical personnel, medical equipment, medical facilities, ethical management, resource efficiency, and drug use. To develop efficiency indicators with professional consensus, a 2-round Delphi survey was conducted among 29 professional experts. The following indicators were selected based on the Delphi survey results: adjusted number of the patient per day and level of the nurse number medical personnel in medical personnel domain; the number of the scan a professional physician and the quality of the scan in medical equipment domain; bed utilization rate in medical facility domain; drug price reported pharmaceutical price by medical institutions, medical fee billing transparency, and medical care appropriateness in ethical management domain; costliness index in resource efficiency domain; and utilization of high cost drug and items per prescription in drug use domain. The efficiency indicators could provide valid information about efficiency of healthcare providers and healthcare systems with respect to their resources use and facilitate policies to improve their efficiency.