• 대한한의학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.114-122
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• 2008

Objectives: To determine the factors affecting the assessment of Oriental medical institutions under the Oriental Medical Institution Assessment System and thereupon, provide for some basic data and alternative measures for assessment of Oriental medical institutions. Methods: The researcher sampled 320 people employed by 26 Oriental medical institutions designated as model Oriental medical institutions subject to assessment in 2008 and 2009 and thereupon, used a structured and open-ended survey table for them to collect the data. The size of the final sample was n=302. Results: The Oriental medical institution staff were highly aware of the Oriental medical institution assessment (OMIA), After adjusting the other factors by multiple regression, the factors affecting such recognition were different significantly depending on age (those in their 30's), types of job (nurses and treatment assistants) and locations of hospital (GyeongSang-do). The staff expected the OMIA could helpful for improving facilities and system of hospitals, thus promoting satisfaction of patients. To do so, they felt it necessary to develop an assessment scale reflecting the special conditions besetting the Oriental medical institutions as well as the indices for improvement of Oriental medical service quality. Conclusion: It is hoped that this study will be followed up by future studies which will comparatively analyze Oriental medical institution staff's perception of the assessment system before and after its operation and thereby, suggest some ideal policy alternatives for assessment of the Oriental medical institutions. Furthermore, future studies are requested to research into Oriental medical institution staff's needs and consumers' needs as well in consideration of the characteristics of the Oriental medical institutions and thereupon, suggest some alternatives for continued education, development of the assessment tools, methods and policies.

• 약학회지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.283-287
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• 2008

Drug identification service and other drug-related query service are becoming increasingly important in hospital pharmacy. The goal of this research was to investigate current situation of the service in hospital pharmacy, which recently implemented the services as part of provision of advanced hospital pharmacy service in order to assure national health improvement. We investigated the report performed from November 2006 through April 2007 in a university hospital located in Daegu, Korea. Number of drug identification service performed was 81 cases during the first three months period (period I), but it increased to 222 cases during the second three months period (period II), which suggested that the service was welcomed by medical staff in the hospital. Time to process each case was about 30 minutes in the period I while it was only 16 minutes in the period II. Proportion of the unidentifiable cases remained at about 25% during the entire period, which suggests that the system for the identification task appears to have some limitations such as unsatisfactory support from the Korea Pharmaceutical Association, laws, and regulations. A vast majority of drug-related queries were mostly from physicians (60.5%) followed by nurses and pharmacists. Time to process each drug-related query was 10.6 minutes in the period I while it was 6.9 minutes in the period II. Queries answered immediately were about 70% of all queries in the period I, but increased to about 85% in the period II.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2006

BACKGROUND: Social, legal, and economic factors have changed the delivery of care to elderly who are frail and/or chronically ill. Increasing number of the elderly are now treated in the community, while living with or in close proximity to their family. It is evident that families play a major role of support for elderly persons in our society. This paper provides a review and analysis of studies that have investigated informal caregiving issues encompassing physical, psychological, emotional, and social domains. RESULTS OF THE REVIEW: Family caregiving often interfered with workplace and other responsibilities, creating physical, emotional, and financial stress for caregivers. Relatively high volumes of research addressed caregiving issues in the families of Alzheimer patients and in the areas of emotional and psychological impact of caregiving. Few studies explicitly investigated the role of informal caregivers in the management of other chronic conditions such as stroke or depression or physical consequences of long-term caregiving. While most studies were focused on negative aspects of caregiving, a few studies found it rewarding. Often the burden, stress, and socio-economic effects on the family caregiving for an elderly person were not sufficiently appreciated. CONCLUSIONS: Positive outcomes for both the caregiver and the care recipient are more likely to occur when effective levels of collaboration exist between health professionals and caregivers. As a first step, a better understanding of the caregiving experience such as caregiver characteristics, care recipient characteristics, and social stigma is important for nurses to minimize the burden of care so that appropriate interventions can be developed. In addition, further studies are needed to examine the role and needs of informal caregivers in the care of increasing number of frail and/or chronic ill elderly treated in the community.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.219-230
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• 2013

Purpose: This study is reviewed of the available literature to identify the evidence of the value of Kegel exercise programs as an intervention to decrease urinary incontinence and the improvement of the quality of life following a radical prostatectomy in localized prostate cancer. Methods: We searched studies of randomized controlled trials that utilized the Kegel exercise programs with patient with a radical prostatectomy. The review was conducted electronic bibliographic database of Ovid-Medline, Embase, Scopus, KoreaMed and NDSL, etc. Of 630 publications identified, seven studies that met the inclusion criteria, and all studies analyzed by meta-analysis. To ensure the quality of the studies, we used Cochrane's Risk of Bias. Results: Kegel exercise helped patient to achieve continence more quickly (after 1, 3, 6, 12 months) than men not using Kegel exercises. Especially, Kegel exercise significantly reduced the development of urinary incontinence at one month after prostatectomy. The effectiveness of Kegel exercise after prostatectomy was found to improve the quality of life at a significant level. Conclusion: Based on available evidence, Kegel exercise that nurses can teach improved the return to continence more than usual care in men with prostatectomy urinary incontinence.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.103-112
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the direction for development of the Korean Journal of Adult Nursing toward becoming an international journal through analysing the accepted and rejected papers during the last three years (2007-2009). Methods: Two hundred and ten accepted papers were analyzed focusing on research methodology and key words using descriptive statistics. In addition, rejected papers were reviewed to analyze their study designs and key words. Results: The proportion of quantitative research was 86.4% while the proportion of qualitative research was 9.5%. The majority of the qualitative research design was survey (71.8%). Sixty percent of the research had verbal consent and 32.7% had written consent from the participants. The prevailing data collection settings were hospitals (52.1%), and community (22.7%). The most frequently used research domain was health. It was noted that theoretical framework was rarely presented. The paper rejection rate was 31.5% and among the rejected paper, 75.3% was survey. Conclusion: The results of this analysis suggest that published studies have been improved and diversified compared with the papers published before the year 2007. However, translation research, clinical trials by nurses, and more detailed evaluation process for ethics in research need to be facilitated.

• 임상간호연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.80-90
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• 2019

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the research trends of articles published in the Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research from 2000 to 2017 by a text network analysis using keywords. Methods: This study analyzed 600 articles. The R program was used for text mining that extracted frequency, centrality rank, and keyword network. Results: From 2000 to 2009, keywords with high-frequency were 'nurse', 'pain', 'anxiety', 'knowledge', 'attitude', and so on. 'Pain', 'nurse', and 'knowledge' showed a high centrality. 'Fatigue' showed no high frequency but a high centrality. Keywords such as 'nurse', 'knowledge', and 'pain' also showed high frequency and centrality between 2010 and 2017. 'Hemodialysis' and 'intensive care unit' were added to keywords with high frequency and centrality during the period. Conclusion: The frequency and centrality of keywords such as 'nurse', 'pain', 'knowledge', 'hemodialysis', and 'intensive care unit' reflect the research trends in clinical nursing between 2000 and 2017. Further studies need to expand the keyword networks by connecting the main keywords.

• 임상간호연구
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.270-276
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate the Edmonson psychiatric fall risk assessment tool (EPFRAT) for psychiatric inpatients. Methods: Data from retrospective study were collected from 670 adult inpatients in two departments of mental health medicine of a tertiary general hospital by reviewing their electronic medical records. There were 41 patients who experienced falls and 629 patients who did not experience falls during the period from January to December 2019. Data were analyzed by sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and a receiver-operating characteristic curve (ROC) for validity assessment using the IBM SPSS/WIN 26.0 program. Results: Factors affecting falls were the participant's age, guardian's residence, high-risk determination at the time of admission, and comorbidity. At the 85 points where the point of sum of the sensitivity and specificity was largest, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of EPFRAT were 92.7%, 79.7%, 22.9%, and 99.4%, respectively. The area under the ROC to assess the overall validity of the tool was .92 (95% CI 0.89~0.94). Conclusion: The EPFRAT was proved to be valid and reasonable for predicting falls in psychiatric inpatients. Based on the results of this study, it could be used for the assessment of high-risk patients for falls in psychiatric units.

• 직업교육연구
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.19-46
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• 2016

이 연구의 목적은 사회적 수요가 증가하는 특성화고등학교 간호과 교육의 운영 현황과 교육과정 편성 운영, 교육환경 등에 대한 현황을 분석하고 간호과 교육의 개선 방향을 탐색하는데 목적이 있다. 이 연구의 방법은 관련 선행연구를 분석하고 학교알리미, 교육통계연보 등 간호관련 학과 개설 및 운영 현황 자료, 학교 교육과정, 각 기관 및 협회의 홈페이지에 소개된 공시 자료 등을 수집 분석하였다. 이 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 2016년 1학기 현재 특성화고등학교 중에 간호과를 개설 운영하는 학교는 총 38개교로 전체 특성화고 마이스터고의 약 6.4% 정도이다. 이들 학교는 주로 보건간호과, 치의보건간호과, 간호과, 의료간호관광과. 간호회계 및 간호경영과 등의 명칭으로 개설하였다. 간호과 졸업생은 2012년 이후 취업률과 진학률간의 격차가 좁혀지고 있으며 2015년에는 특성화고등학교 전체 평균 취업률인 46% 수준이었다. 둘째, 특성화고등학교 간호과는 인력양성 목표를 간호조무사 양성에 두고 관련 취득 자격으로 간호조무사, 요양보호사 등을 주로 제시하고 있었다. 간호과 교육과정은 자격 취득 요건, 현장 직무 수행에서 필요한 역량과 관련한 과목들을 편성하고 있었으나 간호과 교육과정의 충분성, 자격과 교육과정 편성과의 정합성 등을 검토해야 한다. 법적 요건인 780시간의 현장실습은 주로 1학년부터 2학년까지 3번의 방학을 통해 병의원 현장에서 별도의 교육과정으로 운영되고 있었다. 셋째, 간호과 교육의 물적 환경은 전공별로 2개 정도의 실습실과 학생 규모를 고려한 시도교육청의 시설설비 기준을 적용하여 비교적 기본 환경을 구축 활용하고 있었다. 인적 환경인 교사 확보는 간호 표시과목이 없음에 따라 표시과목의 개설, 지역별 배치 기준의 검토, 전문성 함양을 위한 연수 및 연구, 장학의 지원을 위한 개선이 시급한 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.455-469
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• 2008

문제제기: 노인요양시설은 치과진료영역 가운데 가장 취약한 상태에 놓여 있고 신체적, 정신적 장애로 인해 주관적 치료요구도를 파악할 수 없는 상태지만 이에 대한 기초적인 실태조사가 전무한 상태이다. 목적: 본 연구는 노인요양시설에서 노인환자들의 치아우식증에 의한 구강실태를 조사하고, 기능치아와 보철물로 이루어진 교합단위를 분석하여 그에 따른 치과치료수요도를 분석하는데 목적이 있으며 향후 적절한 진료방향을 수립하는데 기여하고자 한다. 연구재료 및 방법: 노인요양시설에서 758명의 노인환자와 D치과의원에 내원한 212명의 65세 이상인 노인을 대상으로 2000년 국민구강건강실태조사에서 작성된 치아우식검진지침에 입각하여 구강실태조사를 시행하였다. 결과: 노인요양시설의 노인에게서 고령으로 갈수록 대조군에 비해 악화되고 있는 구강상태를 알 수 있었고 매우 높은 치료수요를 파악할 수 있었다. 고찰: 노인환자의 구강건강관리를 위해서는 무엇보다도 이들을 보살피는 간병인과 간호 인력들이 가지고 있는 구강건강의 중요성에 대한 인식을 바꾸기 위한 노력이 절실히 필요한 상황이다. 이제는 무치악 환자에게 시행되고 있는 일회성 의치사업 일변도의 복지정책방향을 보건복지부와 일선 지방자치단체에서 사후관리를 원칙으로 한 전문가에 의한 무치악 환자의 의치사업으로 강화해야 하며 유치악의 노인환자들에 대한 정기적인 치과검진을 시행하고 이동진료 및 왕진시스템이 보완된 구강건강관리 및 보존, 수복진료 형태로의 전환을 고려할 시점이라 생각된다.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.216-222
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• 2014

목적: 국내에서 재가암환자를 대상으로 시행된 연구는 많지 않다. 이 연구의 목적은 재가암환자들의 증상정도와 돌봄 요구도를 확인하기 위함이다. 방법: 진주시 재가암 서비스에 등록된 환자를 대상으로 자료를 수집하였다. 측정은 보건소에 소속된 간호사들이 시행하였다. 증상의 평가를 위해 Edmontone Symptome Assessment System (ESAS)와 Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)가 사용되었으며 정신적, 사회적 영적 요구도의 평가를 위해 4점 Likert scale이 사용되었다. 결과: 2013년 10월에 단면조사 방식으로 자료를 수집하였다. 총 209명이 등록되었으며 평균 나이는 65세였다(범위 17~89세). 대다수의 환자들이 초기에 진단 받았으며(n=188), 19명만이 진행된 병기였다. 절반 이상의 환자들이 혼자 거주하고 있었으며(n=115, 55%), 다른 보호자가 없이 스스로 돌보고 있었다(n=128, 61.2%). 식욕부진과 피로가 가장 흔한 증상이었다(NRS 중앙값 각각 5, 4). 환자들은 경제적 문제에 대한 지원이 가장 필요한 반면 영적인 돌봄이 가장 적게 필요하다고 대답하였다(n=138 [67.3%] vs. n=128 [62.1%]). 결론: 이 자료는 진주시 재가암환자들이 신체적 증상과 경제적 문제로 고통 받고 있다는 결과를 보여주었다. 서비스의 질을 향상시키기 위하여 맞춤형 접근이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.