• 대한간호
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.71-91
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• 1996

The objectives of thes study were to identify the need for equipment development in nursing, and to determine the priorities for that development. The study was descriptive study done between March 2 and May 30, 1995, in which the subjects, including 421 patients, 223 family members, and 198 nurses from neurosurgery, orthopedic, rehabilitation medicine, internal medicine and intensive care units of nine general hospitals in Seoul, completed a questionnarie developed by the research team. The questionnaire consisted of 35 open and closed questions. Data was analyzed using frequencies and percentages. The results ware summarized as follows: 1) The average age of the nurses was 27.9 years, 48% of the patients were between 20 and 40 years of age, and 17% were over 60. The average lingth of experience for the nurse subjects was four years five months with 36.9%. having over five years experience. The most frequent diagnoses of patients were spinal disc(35.9%), internal medicine disease(26.0%), cerebral vascular accident(16.6%) and spinal cord injury(10%) 2) Many of the nurses(96.4%) reported deficiencies with existing equipment and 96.5% of the nurses, but only 79.8% of the patients, nurses' time. Further, 82.3% of the nurses and 75.8% of the patients felt that the development of new equipment would lead to a decrease in the cost of nursing care. 3) Nurses felt that the greatest areas of inconvenience were patient feeding(71.7%), hygiene(71.2%), caring for a patient confined to bed(70.7%), patient clothing(67.2%), mobility transfers(63.5%) and urinary elimination(52.0%). However, patients and family members listed the following as being the most inconvenient: urinary elimination(58.7%), Hygiene(50.5), feeding(48.4%), mobility transfers(47.1%) and bed care(45.2%). 4) Generally the nurses listed more inconveniences and patients and family members listed more demands for the development of equipment. These included utensils with large handles, and regulators for tube feedings; mattresses that provide for automatic position change and massage, which have patient controlled levers and a place for bed pan insertion; automatic lifts or transfer from bed to wheelchair; equipment to facilitate washing and oral hygiene as well as equipment that will allow patients with spinal cord injuries easy access to showers; a bed pan/urinal for women that is comfortable and effective from which urine can be measured and disposed of easily; disposable dressing sets and tracheostomy care sets and a convenient way of measuring changes in wound size; a safe delivery system for oxygen, a variety of mask sizes and better control of humidity, tracheal material than at present, as well as a communication system for patients with tracheostomies; clothing that will allow access to various parts of the body for treament or assessment without patients having to remove all of their clothing; and finally a system that will allow the patient to control lighting, telephones and pagers. Priority areas for equipment development reported by the nurses were, urinary elimination(58. 7%), hygiene(50.5%), feeding(48.4%), mobility transfers(47..1%), bowel elimination(40.8%). Those reported by the patients family members were feeding(71.7%), hygiene(70.0%), bedcare(70.7%), clothing(67.2%), mobility transfers(63.6%), urinary elimination(52.9%) and bowel elimination(50.5%) Altogether, nurses, patients and family members listed the following as priorities; clothing (178), bed care(144), urinary elimination(92), environment(81), hygiene(70). Further, a health professional forum listed urinary elimination, oxygen delivery, medication delivery, mobility transfers, bed care and hygiene in that order as priority areas. From this study it can be concluded that the first need is to develop equipment that will address the problems of urinary elimination. To do (l)This nurses who are interested in equipment development should organize an equipment development team to provide a forum for discussion and production of equipment for nursing.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.42-50
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• 2008

목적: 통증은 암환자가 지각하는 가장 고통스러운 증상으로 가족간호자와의 부적절한 의사소통은 암환자의 통증관리에 영향을 미치는 중요한 요인 중 하나이다. 따라서 본 연구는 국내에서 암환자와 가족간호자의 부적절한 의사소통이 효과적인 암성통증관리에 문제가 되는 지를 살펴보기 위하여 지각하는 통증강도에 있어서 암환자와 그 가족간호자의 차이가 존재하는 지를 파악하여, 효과적인 암성통증관리를 위한 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여 실시되었다. 방법: 본 연구는 6개월 동안 서울에 소재한 1개 암 전문 병원에서 입원 또는 외래로 치료를 받고 있는 암환자와 그 환자의 가족간호자 127쌍을 대상으로 하였다. 연구도구는 간이통증척도(BPI-K)의 통증강도 항목과 선행연구를 참고하여 연구자들이 구성한 환자용 설문지 및 가족용 설문지였으며, 훈련된 연구보조원이 일대일로 자료를 수집하였다. 그리고 암환자의 임상적 자료는 의무기록 열람을 통해 수집하였다. 결과: 가족간호자들이 지각한 환자들의 '지난 24시간 동안 가장 심한' 그리고 '바로 지금' 통증강도 평균점수는 암환자들의 통증강도 평균점수에 비해 통계적으로 유의하게 높았다. 통증강도 범주별 일치도는 '지난 24시간동안 가장 심한' 통증의 경우, 암환자의 통증강도가 '심한 통증' 범주인 경우 78.7%의 가족간호자가 같은 범주로 지각하고 있었고, '통증없음'의 경우는 40%의 가족간호자가, '경미한 통증'인 경우는 27.5%의 가족간호자가, 그리고 '중등도 통증'인 경우는 22.9%의 가족간호자가 암환자와 같은 범주의 통증정도로 지각하고 있었다. 그리고 '지금 바로' 통증의 경우, 암환자의 '지금 바로' 통증강도가 '심한 통증' 범주인 경우 50.0%의 가족간호자가 같은 범주로 지각하고 있었고, '경미한 통증'인 경우는 47.2%의 가족간호자가, '통증없음'의 경우는 46.3%의 가족간호자가, 그리고 '중등도 통증'인 경우는 26.3%의 가족간호자가 암환자와 같은 범주의 통증정도로 지각하고 있었다. 결론: 본 연구결과 암환자와 가족간호자가 지각하는 환자의 통증강도 범주의 일치도는 '심한 통증' 범주를 제외하고 절반 미만으로 나타났다. 그러므로 암환자가 '심한 통증'을 경험 할 때보다 '중등도 통증' 또는 '경미한 통증'을 경험할 때 암환자와 가족간호자가 지각하는 통증강도 범주가 다를 가능성이 높으며, 암환자의 통증을 과대평가하는 가족간호자가 과소평가하는 가족간호자보다 더 많을 가능성이 높다. 이에 본 연구에서 나타난 차이를 줄이기 위해 암환자와 가족간호자를 대상으로 간단한 통증척도를 이용하여 통증을 객관적으로 사정하여 보고하도록 교육하여야할 것이다. 또한 본 연구에서 나타난 암환자와 가족간호자의 차이를 규명하는 반복연구를 통해 확인이 필요하며, 암환자와 가족간호자의 통증강도 차이에 영향을 미치는 변수들이 어떤 것인지를 밝히는 연구가 필요하다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.33-54
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• 1981

The purposes of this study were to determine the relevant nursing needs of patients following discharge; to identify the degree of their nursing needs; to identify types and status of discharge order and information given to patients; and to determine their specific nursing needs according to their diagnosis. In addition, opinions toward home care services provided by hospitals or by public health nurses and appointment plans with their physicians were also asked in order to determine the necessity of follow-up care for the patient after discharge. Nine hundred and eighty eight subjects were collected among patients being discharged from one national university hospital and four city hospitals. Data were collected from June,1979 to December,1979 using questionnaires and interviews. On the bases of these data the following findings were observed; 1) Almost 40 percents of total subjects discharged from the hospital with some or great degree of nursing needs in general. The most problematic nursing needs were needs for comfort which include needs for releaving pain, for sound sleep and rest, because these needs can only be met by professional help. More than 50% of total subjects have this problem. 2) Needs for mental health, general metabolism, general hygiene and activities and safety were observed in more than 20 percent of subjects. 3) Discharge orders on diet and oral medication were recorded in patients' charts in 70% of all cases. However, more than fifty percents of patients have not been told these information from doctors or nurses. Even though some of them might have had appointment plans with their physicians, they would not keep the appointments unless they completely understood the necessity of the follow-up care. If they have not had any appointment or would not visit the out-patient clinic, there is no method of caring them and prerenting funther discomfort or complications. Even in injection, ski care, dressing and bath, only one thirds of the subjects having recorded discharge orders understood what they need after discharge. The rest of cases have not known what to do for their further care. 4) More than 80 percents and 70 percents of total subjects agreed to a system of home care services provided by hospitals or public health nurses respectively. That is, regardless of sources of medical expenses, most of patients wanted to be taken care of at home following discharge. 5) While more than half of the patients having benefit of medical insurance or paying fully by themselves had appointment plans with their physicians, only one thirds of the patients fully or partially paid by government had appointment plans with their physicians. These results ex-plain that the appointment plan is directly associated with their economic power. This indicates that the home care services are more needed to the people with lower economical status. 6) Those who have been in the hospital more than 24 days wanted !o have home care services more than those who had less hospital days. They also had more appointment plans than other groups. 7) More than 70 percents of the subjects who had been in a university hospital and approximately 30 percents of the subjects in the city hospitals had appointment plans with their physicians. 8) Those who had the cerebrovascular disease, cancer or hypertension demanded more nursing needs such as needs for comfort, for general metabolism and for mental health. 9) Factors which were associated with the degree of patients' nursing needs were age, duration of hospitalization, opinion toward home care services given by public health nurses, hospital appointments and types of hospital. That is, the older they were and the longer the periods of hospitalization were, the higher were their nursing needs. The more they had nursing needs, the more they wanted to have nursing services and had appointment plans. It can be concluded that there is a great demand for a positive and systematic home care services to the people who have been discharged from hospitals following critical care. This program is definitely demanded for the low income groups of people with less education with the financial assistance of the government or other funding agencies.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2000

Pain management is a major issue in caring of cancer patients. Patients' concerns for reporting pain and taking analgesics are patient-related barriers to the management of cancer pain. Since such study has not been done at all in Korea, it is clearly needed to study on these problems. The purpose of this study is to attain basic data in order to improve cancer pain management in Korea. This is done by: 1) examining the extent of patients' concerns that might be barriers to the optimal pain management, and the extent of related factors (pain management hesitancy, adequacy of using analgesics, pain severity and pain interference); 2) identifying the relationship between patients' concerns and the related factors. The data has been collected from 180 cancer patients who were hospitalized in medical wards of one university hospital in Seoul, Korea during the period from November 1, 1997 to February 28, 1998. The data has been collected through interviews with (1) Barriers Questionnaire - Korean Version (BQ-K); (2) Hesitancy Experience Questionnaires (HQ); (3) Pain Management Index (PMI); (4) Brief Pain Inventory (BPI); and (5) Demographic Data. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and by t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation using SPSSWIN program. The Results are as following: 1) The mean scores of Pain Management Concerns (PMC) by BQ-K were toward the moderate with a little high points(2.59). Most of the patients (99.4%) had some extent of concerns (over lout of maximum 5 points). Among the eight subscales of BQ-K, the Pain Management Concerns (PMC) about 'Fear of tolerance' was the highest (3.80) and 'Worry about side effects' was the least (1.40). 2) The extent of Pain Management Hesitancy (PMH) by HQ of wnom had pain on the day of the interview was a little higher than moderate score(5.53 out of maximum 10 points). 6.7% of the patients with experiencing pain used less adequate analgesics for the severity of pain than they were expected. 27.8% of them never used any analgesics at all. The mean score of pain severity by BPI was 16.59 (maximum: 40), and that of the interference with daily life by BPI was 32.03 (maximum: 70). 3) The patients who were older, less educated, and in low socio-economic status were likely to have more concerns. Pain Management Concerns (PMC) was positively correlated with Pain Management Hesitancy (PMH) (r=.75), pain severity (r=.44) and pain interference (r=.50). Those who were not using adequate analgesics had higher Pain Management Concerns (PMC) than did those who were using adequate analgesics (t=-5.42). The patients who had more Pain Management Concerns (PMC) tended to hesitate more to report pain and to use analgesics. They used more inadequate analgesics for the severity of pain and also had experienced more pain severity and interference with daily life. In conclusion, the patients' concerns for reporting pain and for using analgesics are major patient-related barriers to cancer pain management in Korea. The patients' concerns were correlated significantly with the level of the hesitancy experience, inadequate use of analgesics, the pain severity and the interference with daily life. Considering this, an educational program for cancer patients under the treatment with analgesics should be developed in order to solve these problems.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2001

An image exists in the thought of every subjective person and it exercises its influence over everything, having a great power in the real world. An positive image of the nurse has an influence on her faith, value and confidence, therefore increasing her job satisfaction, helping to upgrade her level of profession of nursing through qualitative nursing service as a result, considering the necessity of such an image when it comes to improvement of the profession, the confirmation of the image is indispensable to its evaluation of a speciality in nursing. This study is intended to help that improvement of the nursing profession in the present so that the total effort in every field of nursing is made and to offer basic material for developing a strategy to improve the image of nurses. This study is designed to investigate such an image descriptively. The subjects include 105 nurses, 60 doctors, 68 office workers, 88 medical engineers, 127 patients and there protectors with a total of 448 adapted with accidental sampling, who work at Y and W general hospital in Chonju. The measuring instrument consists of 40 question, with the researcher amended and made from on of Inja Song(1993), Donsoon Lee(1995), Ilsim yang(1998), and its Cronbach's alpha coefficient is .95. Data were collected from March 1 2000 to March 20, 2000 using self-reported questionnairs, analyzed with SPSS WIN 7.5 after encoding. The results are as follows: 1. Most of the subjects thinks the nursing as a hard, stressful, always busy job(more than 75%), and consider nurses as good-looking, supportive and responsible to co-workers to above average degree($50.0{\sim}74.9%$), especially it shows the idea that nursing is independently academic job and has come to fasten itself upon the public. But it shows below the everage($25.0%{\sim}49.9%$) in regard to self development as a specialist, affection for there job, an association activity, service to the community, high intelligence level and direct given patient nursing service. It also rated low as a recommendable job, independently nursing accomplishment, social position. 2. The nurses, patients and there protectors expressed more positive opinions than doctors, medical engineers, office workers about the image of the nurse(F=18.80, p=.00). This fact indicates that the former group evaluated the image similarly contrary to lowness of the latter. 3. In the study on what influenced upon the image, it defines to 79.8% by direct contact in the hospital or acquaintance with nurses, and 16.3% by mass media. 67.3% answered that they saw the image in a new light through hospitalization, which suggests an important source for the image management originates from caring for the quality of nursing service. Considering the evaluation of the image above, we need strategies to lead a unique professional knowledge and technological development, insurance of professional self-determination, high social position, participation in group activities, dedication to lifetime job, in order that nursing comes to expand as a professional occupation. Also, as for generating more positive images, we must take the quality of nursing service into account and offer and monitor correct information about the expanded role and function of the nurse continuously so that mass media reflect a more accurate image of nurses in general.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.234-238
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• 2011

온보드영상장치(OBI)를 사용하고 있는 콘빔CT(CBCT)를 이용하여 인체 팬텀 자세 및 위치와 모의치료시 인체 팬텀 자세 및 위치를 비교하여 CBCT의 3D 타깃 위치의 유용성을 평가하고자 한다. 실제방사선 치료와 동일한 과정으로 모의 치료계획을 하기 위해서 인체 팬텀(The Rando Phantom) 을 set up 한다. 기준점에 놓인 인체팬텀에서 CBCT를 이용하여 평행이동 및 회전이동 하였다. 이때 얻어진 영상들의 위치 차이에 대한 평균 및 편차를 인체 팬텀의 실제 이동 값과 비교하였다. 실험은 10회씩 반복하여 오차의 표준 편차를 구하였다. CBCT로 획득한 영상과 모의치료 시 획득한 CT영상을 비교하는 3D/3D 매칭에서 평균 setup의 residual error의 평균 및 표준편차는 lateral $0.2{\pm}-0.2$ mm, longitudinal $0.4{\pm}0.3$ mm, vertical $-0.4{\pm}0.1$ mm 로 각각 0~4 mm의 범위 이내로 나타났다. 모의실험 된 회전 내용은 $0.4{\pm}0.2$ mm, $0.3{\pm}0.3$ mm, 그리고 $0.3{\pm}0.4$ mm이다. 회전에 의한 error는 $0{\sim}0.6^{\circ}$ 범위이다. 인체 팬텀을 이용한 CBCT 3D/3D 매칭은 모의 치료 시와 환자 치료 시 정확한 정합을 함으로써 error를 최소화 하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.373-379
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• 2013

Background: Although caregiving to patients with terminal illness is known to be a stressful burden to family members, little attention has been focused on work-related problems. We aimed to investigate employment status and work-related difficulties of family caregivers of terminal cancer patients, comparing with the general population. Methods: Using structured questionnaires, we assessed family caregivers of 481 cancer patients determined by physicians to be terminally ill, from 11 university hospitals and the National Cancer Center in Korea. Results: Among 381 family caregivers of terminal cancer patients (response rate, 87.6%), 169 (43.9%) were not working before cancer diagnosis, but currently 233 (63.7%) were not working. Compared with the general population (36.5%), the percentage of not working among the family caregivers was higher (OR=2.39; 95%CI=1.73-3.29). A major reason for not working was to provide assistance to the patients (71.6%). 40.6% of those who continued working and 32.3% of those who not working family members reported extreme fatigue. Caregivers of old age, those who were female, those with a lower household income, and those caring for patients with a low performance status were not working at a more significant rate. Conclusion: Family caregivers of terminal cancer patients suffer job loss and severe work-related difficulties, probably due to caregiving itself and to fatigue. We need to develop supportive programs to overcome the burden of caregivers of the terminally ill.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.1365-1378
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• 1999

This study is a methodological research study to develop an instrument to measure in patients with cancer and to test the validity and reliability of the instrument. The research procedure was as follows : 1) The first step was to develop conceptual framework based on a comprehensive review of the literature and in-depth interviews with patients with cancer. This conceptual framework was organized in to three dimensions (the intrapersonal dimension, the significant-other and context related dimension, the transcendental dimension). Initially 59 items were adopted. 2) These items were analyzed through the index of content validity(CVI) and 53 items were selected which met more than 80% on the CVI. 3) The pretest was carried out with 87 patients with cancer. After the pretest results were analyzed by item analysis, 44 items were selected. A second test of content validity was conducted and 6 items were eliminated considering the 80% CVI. 4) To test for reliability and validity, data collection was done during the period from January 25, 1999, to February 26, 1999. The subjects for the test were 160 patients with cancer and 185 healthy persons. analysis, item analysis and multitrait-multimethod method to analyze validity. The findings are as follows : 1) The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for internal consistency was .92 for the total 38 items and .79, .82, .85, for the three dimensions in that order. 2) The item analysis was based on the corrected item to total correlation coefficient( .30 or more) and information about the alpha estimate if this item was dropped from the scale. 3) As a result of the initial factor analysis using principal component analysis and varimax rotation, one item was deleted because of factor complexity (indiscriminate factor loadings). In the secondary factor analysis, 7 factors with eigenvalue of more than 1.0 were extracted and these factors explained 56 percents of the total variance. The seven factors were labeled as 'family relationship', 'emotional condition', 'physical discomfort', 'meaning and goal of life', 'contextual stimuli', 'change of body image', 'guilt feelings'. 4) The convergence effect between this instrument and the life satisfaction scale was identified and there was significant positive correlation(r= .52, p= .00). The discriminant validity between this instrument and the depression scale(CES-D) was tested and there was significant negative correlation(r= -.50, p= .00). The instrument for accessing the suffering of patients with cancer developed in this study was identified as a tool with a high degree of reliability and validity. In this sense, this tool can be effectively utilized for assessment in caring for patients with cancer.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.662-672
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 간호 대학생을 대상으로 표준화환자를 활용한 통합시뮬레이션실습프로그램을 개발 및 적용하여 그 효과를 평가하기 위함이다. 본 연구는 일 종합대학 간호학과 4학년 30명을 대상으로 한 단일군 사전사후설계로 지역사회에 거주하는 당뇨를 동반한 만성알코올중독대상자 간호를 위한 시나리오를 개발하였다. 연구결과 통합시뮬레이션실습프로그램 후 의사소통 능력은 프로그램 실시 전보다 유의하게 향상하였으나(t=4.24, p<.001) 전이동기와 학습 자기효능감은 프로그램 전과 후를 비교하였을 때 통계적으로 유의한 향상을 나타내지 못하였다. 또한 의사소통능력과 학습자기효능감, 의사소통능력과 전이동기 사이의 상관관계는 유의하지 않았으나, 학습효능감과 전이동기 사이에는 양적 상관관계가 측정되었다(r=.758, p<.01). 이는 학생들의 학년과 실습경험을 바탕으로 한 적절한 사례를 개발하여 적용함으로서 전이동기를 높이고 문제해결을 통한 학습자기효능감을 증가시키는 것을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통해 표준화환자를 활용한 시뮬레이션학습은 의사소통 능력과 같은 대상자중심의 간호능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 통합실습프로그램으로서 유용함을 확인하였으며, 향후 의사소통능력 뿐 아니라 학습 자기효능감과 전이동기의 향상을 위한 다양한 통합시뮬레이션학습 시나리오개발에 관한 연구가 필요하다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.463-470
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• 2020

본 연구는 중소병원 간호사를 대상으로 다제내성균 감염관리 지식과 교육요구도를 파악하여 중소병원 간호사 맞춤형 감염관리 교육프로그램을 개발하고자 시도되었다. 자료수집은 중소병원에 근무하는 간호사 115명을 대상으로 하였다. 자료수집기간은 2019년 11월 15일~11월 30일까지 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 시행되었다. 수집된 자료는 IBM SPSS 21.0 프로그램을 이용하여 분석하였으며, 기술통계, t-test, ANOVA를 이용하였다. 연구결과 중소병원 간호사의 86.1%가 다제내성균 환자를 간호한 경험이 있었으며 다제내성균 감염관리 교육을 받은 경우가 67.8%로 나타났다. 다제내성균 감염관리지식은 27점 만점에 25.51점이었으며, 다제내성균 환자가 사용한 의료기기에 대한 소독수준, 선제 격리환자의 격리 해제기준, 코호트 격리에서 환자관리, 개인보호구 탈의시점에서 정답률이 낮았다. 교육요구도는 격리병실배정, 선별검사 대상기준, 유행발생관리가 가장 높았다. 또한 일반적 특성에 따른 교육요구도 차이에서 최종학력과 직급에서 차이가 있었다. 따라서 다제내성균의 원내전파 차단 및 유행발생을 예방하기 위해서 다제내성균 감염관리 교육이 중요하므로 다제내성균 감염관리 교육프로그램 개발시 경력별로 교육 구성의 차별화가 필요하다. 신규간호사와 경력간호사 감염관리교육시 필수적으로 다제내성균 감염관리 교육을 수행하는 것이 필요하다.