• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.203-215
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• 1996

Social security is concerned with ensuring all citizens maintain basic needs, community health nursing maintains and promotes health for all community members. Lately, This new area of community health nursing, concern social welfare has increased. The objectives of this study are, first, to analysis the activities of nurses at community social welfare institutes, second, to estimate nursing demand for social welfare areas. The study methods used were as literature review, an analysis of statistical data and case study etc. The analytical framework also included a demand analysis of nursing manpower in community social welfare areas. The major results are as follows; 1. Employees which work at social welfare institutes number 55,464, nursing manpower (including nurse aids) number 1,458 and this is 3% of the total employees. Within nursing manpower, nurses number 780, nurse aids number 670. 2. The rates of nurses among total employees were high in institutes for mental disorders and institutes for the age. 3. The salary level of nurses was lower than average and the rates of retirement showed a roughly middle level in welfare institutes. 4. The satisfaction level of nursing services was high, and it is the trend that nurses substitute for nurse aids which retire at social welfare institutes. 5. Nurse demand that follows legal criteria is 2,221, but only 35% are working. It is therefore insufficient from the minimum of 733 to a maximum 1433. 6. The sufficiency rates by institution were high at institutes for vagrants, aged and the handicapped. In conclusion, the conditions are of nurses which are working in with the social welfare institutes are poor. Also the number of nurses compared rates of demand were in surplus. But, the basic direction of welfare policy is universal-preventive and provision of the family and of community centered service, and nursing service demand in the social welfare institute will increase continuously, we predict. Therefore, we will need a positive plan such as the development of an inservice education program and the construction of an information collection system etc.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.20 no.3 s.111
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• pp.58-65
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• 1981

It is desirable to utilize the community health resources to manage community health services effectively with limited personnel, time and facilities. This study was conducted to determine the utilization of community health resources. During the period o

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.627-638
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• 2001

Caring is an essential element of nursing. In a family with a patient. a critical situation may happen not only for the patient but also for the members of the family. Therefore, a caring service from the healthcare providers can also be requested for the family members. The movie 'Mabin's Room' deals with family problems. In this study, the assessment, problem, diagnosis and planning for the family nursing situation for family problems were made focusing on the role of characters in the movie 'Mabin's Room'. Regarding family nursing intervention, the framework of the story 'Mabin's Room' was reorganized to solve the problems based on the role of community health nurse. In this scenario approach method, the situation in the movie is used without change but the scenario related to the roles (or communication) of community health nurse for solving the family problems is added. It is a problem solving oriented method by reorganizing the scenario in a movie story situation. The reorganized scenario in this study is just an example of scenario approach method. Community Health Nurses can cultivate their creativity by solving various problems in the community by adopting or modifying this simple scenario in practice.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.21 no.5 s.118
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• pp.56-64
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• 1982

The purpose of this study were to investigate the status of practical education for community health nursing subject. The data were collected from 4.4 processors who take charge of practical education for community health nursing in nursing educational in

• Journal of muscle and joint health
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.177-184
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate career choice of male nursing students and identify factors influencing their career choice. Methods: Subjects were 123 male nursing junior and senior students in B city, U city, and GN area. Career types were classified into a hospital nurse and a community nurse. Subjects were asked about 29 items of nurse image and 31 items of satisfaction on clinical practice. The collected data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation, t-test, ${\chi}^2$-test, and logistic regression, using SPSS 21.0 program. Results: The percentage of career choice which subjects hoped when admitted into nursing universities consisted of hospital nurses of 77.2%, while the percentage changed to hospital nurses of 52.8% at the time of this survey. The nurse image represented as an influencing factor, and it was found that if nurse image score increased one unit, the hoping units of career type of hospital nurse increased 2.69 times. Conclusion: The educational institutions have to provide career education programs and information concerned to not only hospital nurses but also community nurses, and further studies on the positioning and expanding roles of community male nurses need to be conducted.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.157-166
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• 2005

Purpose: This study was to explore health experiences of the low-income elderly living alone reflected in Newman's Health as expanding consciousness theory. Method: The researcher used Newman's praxis methodology because it is good for showing the process of interaction between the researcher and the low-income elderly living alone. Results: The significant characteristics of early health experience during a participant's lifetime were demonstrated that blamed themselves, being burden of themselves hopeless of their lives. However, after a turning point in health experience. The health experience of most of the participants evolved as expanding consciousness. Conclusion: This study has provided support for Newman's theory of health. Most of the participants recognized meanings in their patterns and authentic caring relationships with the nurse as researcher, pattern recognition as a nursing practice was a meaningful transforming process in the participant-nurse partnership. This participatory approach expands the scope of sharing health experience with the elderly living alone and with caring community people.

• Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.4
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• pp.86-100
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• 1997

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the community rehabilitation program of the two Public Health Center. Data were collected from the 138 clients who received rehabilitation services from visiting public health nurses. Data were analysed by SAS computer program. The result were as follows. 1. The clients have been average 7years disabled state until public health nurse visit them. 78.3% of them can't advance rehabilitation process because of insufficient family or social support. 2. The clients' burden due to their family's help was average 80.0 and that due to economic distresst was average 76.0. That factors were same that interfere rehabilitation process. 3. The clients needed exercise and modality therapy(78.2), economic support(76.0) and rehablitation advices (64.0). The needs of welfare benefit, medical service and social participation were 68.0, 61.5 and 54.5. 4. The pulblic health nurse visited the clients 2.3 time every month. And they have served emotional support (95.7%, exercise therapy (94.9%), family education(82.6%) and blood pressure management (71.7%), One client have received average 60% of the medical rehabilitation services and 27% of the refer services. 5. The rehabilitation effects of clients' attitude, knowledge and practice were 73.3, 81.0 and 68.7. The physical rehabilitation effect was 70.0. After receving rehabilitation services, the clients' preforrence to pulblic health center was 82.0. 6. The clients hopped that public health nurse visit them earlier (80.0). On the basis of this results, the following suggestions are proposed. 1. The pulblic health center is important institution in community rehabilition program, and every pulblic health center must participate in this program. 2. Various strateges have to be tryed and analysed to improve the visiting nurses' rehabilitation services. 3. For successful community rehabilitation, social welfare rehabilitation program must be developed and correlated with that of the pulblic helth center.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.83-95
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• 2017

Objectives: The purpose of the research is understand the priorities of national competency standards vocational key competence factors in nurse who is work in Seoul and Incheon. Methods: The design of this study is descriptive investigation research, and the subjects were 144 nurse. we establish the vocational key competency defined in national competency standards as analytic hierarchy analysis model. The vocational key competency has 10 categories and 34 sub-categories. And based on the survey in nurse, the weight representing relative importance of each factor were calculated by using analytic hierarchy process method. Results: The analytic hierarchy process analysis on 10 categories showed that professional ethics(0.149) was higher than any other categories while that of numeracy(0.040) was at the bottom. And the analysis on sub-categories revealed that the most important factors in each categories included the Ethical community(Professional ethics), Conflict management skills(Interpersonal skills), Problem solving capability(Problem-solving skills), Listening skills(Communication skills), Applicable technical skills(Technical skills), Ability to understand business(Ability to understand organizational structures), Information processing capabilities(Information capacity), Self-management skills(Self-development capability), Ability to manage time(Resource management capabilities), Basic math skills(Numeracy). Conclusions: The results in this study can be used as basic data for the development of liberal arts curriculum for Nursing.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.17 no.6 s.98
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• pp.57-66
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• 1978

Proper health care to school population leads good health to them and will be effective community health activities. Furthermore, this measure will be expected more economic and efficient one than others to promote community health. This survey was conduc

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.503-517
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• 1989

This study is to analyze factors affecting the school nurse's activities. The survey was undertaken during Sept. 1-Nov. 30, 1986. The subjects were 137 school nurses from elementary, junior-high, and senior-high schools in Daegu City and Kyungppk Province. The results are as follows: 1. Correlational findings between school nurse's self-confidence and their general characteristics 1) Program Planning & Evaluation: Health Experinece(r=-0.1803, p<0.05) Salary Step(r=-0.1741, p<0.05) 2) Clinic Management: Salary STep(r=-0.2580, p<0.01) 3) Health Education: Salary Step(r=-0.1929, p<0.05) 4) Management of School Environment: Salary Step(r=-0.2501, p<.05) 5) Health Care Services: Health Experience(r=0.1901, p<0.05) Salary Step(r=-0.2424, p<0.05) 2. The degrees of school nurse's self-confidence(high: 4 point, low: 1 point) 1) Clinic Management: 2.92 2) Health Education: 2.86. 3) Program Planning & Evaluation: 2.74 4) Health Care Services: 2.73 5) Management of School Environment: 2.67 6) Operating of School Health Organization: 2.42 3. Significances to self-confidence on school nurse's activities 1) Program Planning as Evaluation: Expending Times for Health Care Services (r=-0.2262, p<0.05) Expending Times for Health Education (r=0.2943, p<0.05) Size of Clinic(r=0.2163, p<0.05) Location of Clinic(t=2.43, gH0.047) Use of Clinic(t=2.06, p<0.007) 2) Clinic Management: Location of Clinic (t=3.36, p<0.010) 3) Health Education: Purchase of Medicine(r=-0.1736, p<0.05) No, of Classes (r=-0.1794, p<0.05) (4) Management of School Environment: School Health Budget(r=0.1731, p<0.05) Home Message(r=0.1805, p<0.05) Location of Clinic(t=4.46, p<0.0001) 5) Operating of School Health Organization: School Health Budget(r=0.1878, p<0.05) Use of Clinic(t:1.90, p<0.018) 6) Health Care Services: School Health Budget(r=1.90, p<0.018) Expending Times for Health Education(r=0.2577, p<0.05) Size of Clinic(r=0.4336, p<0.001) Location of Clinic(t:5.10, p<0.001)