• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.187-199
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• 2015

Background: Singapore has the stable healthcare system with utilizing pharmacist manpower in proper positions by demand of populations' health among Asian countries. Objective: This study aims to systematically review (1) the pharmacists' role and (2) the pharmacy education system of Singapore in comparison with Korea. Method: We searched for information about academic, medical and governmental institutions related to professional pharmacists' practice in Singapore by primarily using database such as DBpia, KISS, Google Scholar and ProQuest and the official website of the Singapore Ministry of Health. We contacted and arranged the visit schedules with National University of Singapore, National Health Group's polyclinics, Agency for Integrated Care, National University Hospital, and community chain pharmacies. During onsite visits, we interviewed pharmacists working in each institution and obtained additional documents and materials relevant to this manuscript work. Results: To become a registered pharmacist in Singapore, the pharmacy curriculum requires four full-time academic years and six additional months allotted for pre-registration training. Pharm.D. course is offered for pharmacy graduate students with additional two full-time years of study. Team teaching and inter professional education program seem the most significant method in pharmacy education. Pharmacists working at hospitals, polyclinics, and community pharmacies in Singapore take broader roles and offer more cognitive services such as smoking cessation program and medication reconciliation. Especially, pharmacists in Agency for Integrated Care fill the role of primary care providers for the continuing care of the community through the governmental support toward the patients-centered integrated care. Conclusion: Singaporean pharmacists take significant and active roles in collaboration with other healthcare providers. Efforts such as interprofessional pharmacy education and governmental endorsement of the systematic and interactive care between pharmacists and other medical providers in Singapore are needed to be urgently applied to Korea healthcare system for the promotion of population health.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제81권2호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2018

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious chronic condition with a global impact. Symptoms of COPD include progressive dyspnea, breathlessness, cough, and sputum production, which have a considerable impact on the lives of patients. In addition to the human cost of living with COPD and the resulting death, COPD entails a huge economic burden on the Chinese population, with patients spending up to one-third of the average family income on COPD management in some regions is clinically beneficial to adopt preventable measures via prudent COPD care utilization, monetary costs, and hospitalizations. Methods: Toward this end, this study compared the relative effectiveness of six indices in predicting patient healthcare utilization, cost of care, and patient health outcome. The six assessment systems evaluated included the three multidimensional Body mass index, Obstruction, Dyspnea, Exercise capacity index, Dyspnea, Obstruction, Smoking, Exacerbation (DOSE) index, and COPD Assessment Test index, or the unidimensional measures that best predict the future of patient healthcare utilization, cost of care, and patient health outcome among Chinese COPD patients. Results: Multiple linear regression models were created for each healthcare utilization, cost, and outcome including a single COPD index and the same group of demographic variables for each of the outcomes. Conclusion: We conclude that the DOSE index facilitates the prediction of patient healthcare utilization, disease expenditure, and negative clinical outcomes. Our study indicates that the DOSE index has a potential role beyond clinical predictions.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.87-97
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• 2020

본 연구는 간호대학생에게 표준화 환자를 활용한 접촉주의 환자 간호 시뮬레이션 교육의 효과를 확인하기 위하여 수행되었다. 본 연구대상자는 일개 대학 간호대학생 67명을 대상으로 2019년 10월부터 12월까지 진행되었다. 혼합 연구방법으로 시뮬레이션 전과 후에 다제내성균 감염관리 지식과 수행자신감을 조사하여, paired t-test로 분석하였고, 성찰일지는 내용분석을 수행하였다. 중재 후 대상자의 다제내성균관련 감염관리 지식과 수행자신감은 통계적으로 유의한 증가를 보였다. 성찰일지 내용분석에서는 39개의 의미있는 진술과 13개의 범주를 도출하였다. 본 연구의 결과 표준화 환자를 활용한 접촉주의 환자간호 시뮬레이션 교육은 다제내성균 감염관리 지식과 수행자신감을 증진시키며, 간호 전문직으로서 실제적인 접촉주의 간호수행능력, 환자중심간호, 협력을 학습할 수 있는 교육전략임을 확인하였다.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2007

Background: Intersectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration is becoming more prominent in all facets of government, health, social services, and scientific endeavors. An interplay of a multitude of driving forces moves multiple disciplines forward to achieve quality outcomes in health and social sciences services and research. Aim: This paper aims at discussing the prospects for future multidisciplinary collaboration. If inter organizational integration and multidisciplinary collaboration are the ways of the future in academia and the scientific world, it then becomes crucial to examine what lies ahead for the nursing profession, Discussion: This paper argues that in order for multidisciplinary endeavors to succeed, the leaders in multidisciplinary teams shoulder the largest share of the responsibilities involved. In developing a lasting team constituting professionals from different disciplines, the leader needs to include the right individuals in the team, identify a common goal, build trusting relationships through open communication and interprofessional education, and empower members through creating room for autonomy and at the same time allowing space for personal development. The leader will need to utilize information technologies to manage communication issues in a large multi-site multidisciplinary project. Lastly, he or she must be able to demonstrate team productivity through process and outcome evaluation. It needs to be emphasized that it falls to each individual nurse to speak up and act upon what nursing believes and represents in our quest for success in multidisciplinary endeavors. Conclusion: The significance of the role of the leader is paramount for a team to succeed. Yet there is no prospect if only a handful of exceptional nurse leaders are moving ahead in multidisciplinary endeavors. Without the actualization of professional roles by each individual nurse, the profession will have no prospect in collaborations across disciplines.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.300-307
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• 2018

Objective: As the demands of healthcare environment change, it is necessary to advance human health care by improving students' essential competencies including knowledge, skills, abilities, inter-professional collaboration and patient centered care. This study identified long term accomplishment and improvement of the essential competencies in clinical pharmacy practice education (CPPE) at Korean hospitals over time. Methods: This study was conducted for pharmacy students who completed CPPE evaluation related to tertiary hospitals and secondary hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do regional area from 2014 to 2018. Results: Over the past 5 years, overall results of student evaluation on the essential competencies in CPPE at both tertiary and secondary hospitals showed a decreasing trend or did not change. Essential competency in CPPE at tertiary hospitals had been identified as superior on 'Learn clinical knowledge in the treatment of diseases' to secondary hospitals [average number of students (%): 210 (72.9%) vs 68 (68.0%)]. On the other hand, essential competencies in CPPE at secondary hospitals had been identified as better at 'inter-professionals collaborative teamwork and direct patient care' than tertiary hospitals [average number of students (%): 64 (64.0%) and 56 (56.0%) vs 121 (42.0%) and 90 (31.3%)]. A total of 176 (61.1%) students in tertiary hospitals and 66 (66.0%) in secondary hospitals evaluated that 'patient-centered care' education was good. Conclusion: In tertiary hospitals, all six essential competency outcomes have not been improved, whereas four essential competency outcomes showed an increasing trend in secondary hospitals. It will be necessary to develop outcome-based CPPE education program to better reflect the essential competencies.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.378-390
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• 2022

Purpose: This study developed an in-service training program for patient safety and aimed to evaluate the impact of the program on nurses in the operating room (OR). Methods: A pretest-posttest self-controlled survey was conducted on OR nurses from May 6 to June 14, 2020. An in-service training program for patient safety was developed on the basis of the knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) theory through various teaching methods. The levels of safety attitude, cognition, and attitudes toward the adverse event reporting of nurses were compared to evaluate the effect of the program. Nurses who attended the training were surveyed one week before the training (pretest) and two weeks after the training (posttest). Results: A total of 84 nurses participated in the study. After the training, the scores of safety attitude, cognition, and attitudes toward adverse event reporting of nurses showed a significant increase relative to the scores before the training (p < .001). The effects of safety training on the total score and the dimensions of safety attitude, cognition, and attitudes toward nurses' adverse event reporting were above the moderate level. Conclusion: The proposed patient safety training program based on KAP theory improves the safety attitude of OR nurses. Further studies are required to develop an interprofessional patient safety training program. In addition to strength training, hospital managers need to focus on the aspects of workflow, management system, department culture, and other means to promote safety culture.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.148-157
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• 2021

본 연구는 한국어판 전문직 간 교육에 대한 인식 측정도구(K-IEPS)의 타당도와 신뢰도를 검증하기 위하여 시행되었다. 연구 방법은 전문직 간 교육에 대한 인식 측정 원도구를 세계보건기구의 가이드라인에 따라 한국어로 번안하였고, 번안된 도구를 활용하여 2020년 12월부터 2021년 1월까지 4개의 대학 보건의료전공 대학생 302명을 대상으로 자료를 수집하였다. 자료 분석은 탐색적 요인분석(EFA), 확인적 요인분석(CFA), 수렴타당도, Cronbach's alpha, 급내 상관계수(ICC)를 사용하여 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, K-IEPS는 2개의 하위요인(역량과 자발성에 대한 인식, 실제적인 협력에 대한 인식)과 10개 문항이 적합하였다. 또한 K-IEPS의 전체문항 신뢰도 Cronbach's alpha는 .87이었고, 검사-재검사 신뢰도는 .83이었다. 본 연구에서 검증된 K-IEPS는 전문직 간 교육에 대한 인식을 측정하는데 타당도와 신뢰도가 있는 도구임이 확인되었다. 따라서 향후에 K-IEPS는 전문직 간 교육에 대한 인식 및 프로그램의 효과를 측정하기 위한 도구로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국의료윤리학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.330-343
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• 2018

4차 산업혁명시대가 도래했다는 관심이 증가되면서 이에 따른 윤리적 이슈에 대한 탐구 및 대학 교육의 방향에 대한 제고가 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문의 목적은 4차 산업혁명 시대의 대표적 기술분야인 인공지능, 빅데이터, 유전체 기술, 가상현실의 윤리적 이슈 및 국내외 정책과 교육 현황을 살펴보고 앞으로 대학의 생명윤리교육이 나아가야 할 방향을 제안하는 것이다. 4차 산업혁명시대의 국내외 정책과 교육현황을 요약하면, 국외는 4차 산업혁명 기술의 잠재적 이득과 사회적 위험에 대한 법적, 윤리적 고려를 바탕으로 관련 가이드 라인 및 규제 권고안이 발표되었고, 과학 기술의 발전에 따른 학생들의 윤리적 가치 확립의 중요성이 정책적으로 강조됨에 따라 4차 산업혁명시대의 기술개발과 관련된 생명윤리교육과정이 개설된 바 있으며, 대학 내 윤리실험실 개설, 공개 토론회를 넘어 온라인 공개 강좌를 통해 생명윤리 교육의 접근성을 높이고 있다. 국내의 경우에도 최근 공청회 등을 통해 4차 산업시대의 정책방향에 대한 논의가 이루어지고 있으며, 대학교육 또한 시대적 흐름에 맞는 생명윤리 교육을 제공하기 위한 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 국내 대학의 생명윤리교육은 전통적인 생명윤리 주제에 새로운 과학기술로 야기된 윤리적 이슈를 일부 추가하여 운영되는 교육과정이 대부분이며, 단일 전공 교수자의 강의 운영, 선택 과목, 비정기적인 강의 개설, 그리고 온라인 공개 강좌의 부재 등의 제한점이 확인되었다. 이에 따라, 본 논문에서는 추후 국내 대학의 생명윤리교육을 개선하기 위한 방안을 다음과 같이 제안하고자 한다; 국내 대학의 생명윤리교육은 다직군 간 교육으로 개발되고, 점진적으로 필수 교육과정으로 지정하여 교육의 기회를 확보하며, 온라인 공개 강좌로 확대 개설할 필요가 있다. 또한, 대학 내 생명윤리 이슈에 관한 공개 토론의 장을 마련하고 과학기술의 발전과 그 변화를 함께할 수 있도록 주기적인 논의를 통해 생명윤리교육의 내용을 지속적으로 개선해야 할 것이다.