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KMID : 0869520040090010083
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Journal of East-West Nirsing Research
2004 Volume.9 No. 1 p.83 ~ p.90
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Nurse Image Perceived by Elementary and Middle School Students
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Cho Kyoul-Ja
Ji Eun-Sun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to investigate the image of nurse perceives by students of elementary and middle schools in Seoul, Korea.
Method: The data were collected through questionnaire survey on 860 students. The survey was performed during May to Jun. 2003. The nurse image was analyzed through the instrument conceived by Il-Sim, Yang(1998) on the basis of four dimensions; traditional, social, professional and personal. The collected data analyzed using SPSS 11.0 with frequency, mean, standard deviation and t-test.
Result:The results of this study were as follows. 1. There was a significant difference in the nurse’s image between elementary and middle school students(p=.000), and the elementary students had more positive image. 2. The nurse’s image of elementary school students had more positive than middle school students in traditional(p=.000), social(p=.000), professional(p=.000) and personal dimension(p=.015). In elementary school students, score of nurse’s image was the highest in personal dimension, followed by traditional, professional and social in order. In middle school students, score of nurse’s image was the highest in personal dimension, followed by professional, traditional and social in order. 3. The difference of nurse’s image not showed statistical significance in sex, religion, experience of hospitalization(self), experience of hospitalization (family), nurses in family by general characteristics.
Conclusion: As a result, elementary school student had more positive nurse’s image than middle school student in all the aspects. But as they grow old, it changed negative. It is required to develop public information or education fit with student’s age to image making by broadcasting and to improve the image nurses themselves.
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KEYWORD
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Nurse Image, elementary school student, middle school student
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