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KMID : 0614820150210040341
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
2015 Volume.21 No. 4 p.341 ~ p.353
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Analysis of the Job of Nurses Working on Oriental Medicine Wards
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Kim Myung-Ja
Kim Mi-Hwan
Jeong Hee-Sug
Kim Yun-Seo
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify nurse’s role through job analysis of nursing duties for nurses working on East Asia traditional medicine wards.
Methods: Major steps in the study included a literature review, description of job activities of nurses on oriental medicine wards, comparative description of the literature, expert tests of validity of derived duties and tasks, and investigation of importance, difficulty and frequency of duties on job list.
Results: The job of nurses on oriental medicine wards was classified into 12 duties, 59 tasks, and 295 task elements. The 12 duties were nursing assessment, nursing diagnosis, nursing planning, nursing implementation, nursing evaluation, supplies management, management of human resources, management of environment, management of documents, formation of cooperative relationships, self-development, and nursing activity in oriental medicine. ’Formation of cooperative relationships’ was the duty ranked highest for importance (4.34), ’self-development’ was ranked highest for difficulty (3.47), and ’Formation of cooperative relationships’ was ranked highest for frequency (4.21).
Conclusion: Basic education for nurses on an oriental medicine unit is necessary for the performance of oriental nursing to be considered as a specialized field. This study contributes to human resource management in the oriental medical hospital.
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KEYWORD
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East Asian traditional medicine, Nurses, Task performance and analysis, Job description, Nurse’s role
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