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KMID : 1164520090270010019
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Journal of Military Nursing Research
2009 Volume.27 No. 1 p.19 ~ p.38
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Development of the Curriculum for Flight Nurse
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Jeong Ji-Ah
Baek Suk-Kyo
Kim Chun-Suk
Park Jung-Hyun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to develop the "Flight Nurse Course" of the ROKAF.
Methods: This study was designed based on descriptive research to develop the curriculum for flight nurses. The developmental process included reviewing literature, gathering advice from various experts, conducting task analysis, and analysis of the trainees, and describing the goal. Then final data were collected from air force nursing officers through a self reporting questionnaire survey during the period from the 1st to the 15th of June, 2008. A total of 30 questionnaires were
analyzed by SPSS/12.0 for Windows using descriptive statics.
Results: Results are summarized as follows. 1. The contents of the flight nurse course were developed through need analysis. 80% of the flight nurses surveyed responded that there was a need for program separation between the nursing course and the ROKAF medical service orientation. The topics included in flight nurse courses consist of ’aerospace physiology’, ’aerospace nursing’, ’aerospace medical evacuation’ and ’others’. 2. When the score of need for the orientation session of ROKAF aerospace medical service was measured on a 4-point scale, all of the 11 questionnaires tallied were over 3.0-points. The highest score was ’flight and women(3.52)’, the lowest score was ’industrial health(3.15)’. 3. When the score on the need for a course in aerospace physiology was measured on a 4-point scale, all o thef 9 questionnaires were tallied over 3-points. The under aerospace physiology, there are 9 sub-categories that were scored individually. ’A Pressurized Cabin Chamber’, and High-pressure Oxygen received the highest score at 3.48. The sub-category ’Atmospheric Physiology received the lowest score at 3.15’. 4. When the need for an aerospace nursing session was measured on a 4-point scale, 16 questionnaires related to nursing were scored at over 3.5-points, and 4 questionnaires related to medicine scored over 3.0-points. The sub-categories related to medicine were ’Flight and Medicine(3.48), ’Flight and Life Cycle(3.44)’, ’Flight and Exercise(3.41)’, and ’Flight and Fatigue(3.38). 5. When the need for an aeromedical evacuation session was measured on a 4-point scale, 12 questionnaires scored over 3.5-points, and 1 questionnaire in the ’other’ category was over 3.0-points. The sub-category that received the lowest score was ’survival at 3.15’. 6. When the need for sessions was measured on at a 4-point scale, the sub-category that received the highest score was ’Civil Air-medical System at 3.52’, and the one that received the lowest score was ’Change and Innovation at 2.96’.
Conclusion: This study developed the systemic contents of flight nursing education for nurses. The flight nurse course is separated from the orientation of ROKAF aerospace medical service, and the contents of the flight nurse course consist of ’aerospace physiology’, ’ aerospace nursing’, ’aerospace medical evacuation’ and the ’others’. The newly designed flight nurse course will implement both basic and advanced flight nurse courses both as part of the Aerospace Medical Center. Furthermore, these courses will contribute to the hands-on-abilities of flight nurses during both the peace and war times.
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KEYWORD
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Flight Nurse Course, Aeromedical Evacuation
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