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KMID : 0869520070130020197
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Journal of East-West Nirsing Research
2007 Volume.13 No. 2 p.197 ~ p.207
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Development of Nursing Costs by Nursing Activities in Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Kim Yoon-Hee
Lee Hyang-Yeon
Han Sang-Sook
Shin Hye-Sook
Lee Myung-Hee
Kim Sook-Neoung
Lee Hye-Jin
Kim Hye-Sook
Choi Hyes-Sun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was carried out to deveop nursing costs and to substantiate the application of appropriate activity-based nursing costs for the current clinical nurse specialists.
Method: The study sample was a group of 8 home health care team of the tirtiary Hospital in Korea. The data was collected from September 2003 through December 2004. The statistical analysis was done by SPSS PC 11.0 program and calculated mean and the standard deviation. In Lee(2003)’s nursing activity analysis, nursing activities were classified into two major classification, 19 domains and 70 activities. Each activities was calculated using its work validity, physical effort, psychological effort, stress as a intensity, and the necessary time. The simple work costs was calculated the work wage per minute and the necessary time. The work load intensity was calculated using the work wage per minute and the necessary time work load intensity/100.
Results: In this study, the work wage was 283 won per minute. The work validity ranged from 2.71-4.00. The highest simple work cost/work load intensity cost was 12,735won/47,374won for research activity, 10,700won/27,499won for bedsore care, and 9,727won/35,114won for deathbed care. The lowest simple work cost/work load intensity cost was 2,123won/2,038won for intramuscular injection, 2,210won/2,166won for hypodermic injection, and 2,210won/1,547won for a application of medicine(or ointment or cream).
Conclusion: It revealed that the nursing cost should be considered validity, physical effort, psychological effort, stress as a intensity, and necessary time. Therefore, It is necessary to calculate nursing cost systematically based on activities.
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KEYWORD
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Clinical nurse specialist, Nursing practice, Fee schedule, Simple work costing, Work load intensity costing
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