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The purpose of this study was to find the extent of role perceived by the nurses and the child care. Subjects were 170 patient’s family members of five hospitals and 180 nurses, who worked in two hospitals in Seoul. A questionnaire was made for this study on the basis of the review of literatures concerned and the advices of 4 professors majoring child nursing and fundamental nursing. It consisted of questions about the personal background of subjects and 55 nursing procedures which was believed to be done in the pediatric ward. Subjects were asked to check to check the extent of role, which was classified into 5 categories-nurses’s role, mostly nurse’s role partly family members’ role, not distinct, mostly family members’ role partly nurse’s role, family members’ role. To compare the extent of role perceived by nurses and family members’, each category was given points by means of Likert scale. Obtained data were computerized by SAS system and statistically analyzed by t-test & F-test. 1. Nurses perceived most of nursing procedures as their unique role and they thought they should take parts in the delegated procedures, even when some of the nursing procedures were delegated to the ill-child’s family members. 2. The ill child’s faimly members perceived those nursing procedures such as check of pulse and respiration, suctioning, gavage feeding, observation of the ill-children receiving blood transfusion and humidification as the nurses’ unique role, but the rest as role which they could do. 3. There were no significant relationship between the several nurse’s personal backgrounds and the extent of role perceived by them. 4. The ill child’s family members were perceiving the nursing procedures to satisfy the need of affiliation more and more as the nurses’ role with the years(F=4.49, p<0.05), and in case the ill child was female(T=2.16, p<0.05). They were perceiving the nursing procedures to satisfy the physical need more and more as the nurses’ role as their educational level was lowering (F=3.37, p<0.05). There were no significant relationship between the other personal backgrounds of the ill child’s family members and the extent of role perceived them. 5. There were significant differences between the extent of role perceived by the nurses and the one by the ill-child’s family members(T=29.35, p<0.001).
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