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The aim of this research is to make clear the actual condition of teaching staffs in nursing schools or colleges in Korea, that is, to show their social status, their quality, their burdens of work, current status of students’ clinical practice, self-training .of the staffs, and their occupational consciousness, The method used in the reseach was the questionaire with 33 items sent by return mail to 200 teachers in various nursing schools (average 2 or 4 per school). The results obtained from the above research could be summarized as follows : 1. Social Status and Quality Compared with teachers in other fields, they are in lack of career in schooling, teaching and clinical practice, and their average age is low. 1) Schooling Graduated from nursing school = 33.2% Graduated from nursing college = 23.9% Graduated from other colleges = 14.1% Graduated from graduate school = 17.7% 2) Teaching Career 1 - 5 yrs = 49.4% 6 - 10yrs = 27.6% 3) Clinical Experiences less than 1 yr = 11.4% 1 - 3 yrs = 42.4% 4) Age group 25-29 = 28.6% 20-24 = 22.1% 30-34 = 22.8% 5) Additional licenses besides nurses nursing teachers = 53.2% midwives = 20.9% teachers = 16.1% military training teachers = 4.9% 2. Extra Burdens of Work The number of class-hours they teach per week is below the legal minimum requirement (65%), but they usually have to take some extra burdens of administrative works for want of clerks. 1) Kinds of work lectures only = 31.0% lectures plus additional works clinical service = 30.5% in charge of class = 12.6% academic affairs = 19.0% 2) The number of clerical staffs employed in each school none = 36.0% 1 = 26.5% 2 = 18.4% 3 = 10.8% And in case there is no clerks, the teachers usually do the office-works. (56.2%). 3. Facilities for clinical practice Most of the nursing schools and colleges are short of independent facilities for the clinical practice. (only 28.5%) have their own.) The difficulties in placing the trainees for the clinical practice in hospitals or clinics are. very diffcult = 31.1% not so easy = 26.5% Most of the schools(56.9%)do not have their full-time clinical instructors, and a large group among the respondents (75.3% complained that theory and practice at clinical practice facilities are never or little connected with each other. 4. Self-training 1) Activities for self-improvement attending seminars = 69.8% 2) Time spent on reading per day 1 hr = 22.1% 2 hrs = 31.7% 3) They get the books they read from school library = 30.6% at their own expenses = 50.5% 5. Occupational Consciousness 1) They chose the teaching job voluntarily = 51.9% half-voluntarily = 5.7% involuntarily = 27.2% 2) The degree of satisfaction with the job satisfied = 40.0% mediocre = 35.4% not satisfied = 7.5% The satisfied group explained the reason," I can continue study." (49.3%), and among the negative group the complaints are: extra burdens of work = 16.0% their lack of ability = 24 0% separation from clinical field 20.0% with these results obtained from 158 respondents in various nursing schools, some suggestions can be made to find measures for the betterment of the present nursing education in Korea. Since the level of the academic backgrounds and clinical experiences of the teaching staffs in nursing schools is lower than that of other fields, some academic societies and institutes in this field should be established or organized for the improvement of those teachers who were not able to complete the regular college course. In nursing education as in other fields, the theoretical backgrounds learned in the classroom should be applied to the clinical settings. From this point of view, the clinical experiences should be a prior criterion in employing teachers in nursing schools. The supplement of office-workers is anurgent problem to be solved so that teachers may be involved in academic research and instruction only. It is an inevitable fact that they are burdened with too much additional work besides the teaching job. But there are a lot of positive motive motives for the betterment of nurse education, such as self-training of teachers, active support and cooperation of school authorities, renovation of education system, production of academic atmosphere, and gradual supplement of office-workers The future of nurse education is never so dark that we all can expect desirable and promising nurses who will be able to contribute to the community not only clinically but also humanistically.
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