The Purpose of this study was to reduce the trouble between the nurse and patients occurred in the nursing duties, and to provide the improved nursing service, by comparing expectation to the nursing role suggested by the patients and
their
nurse serving at the general hospital.
To accomplish these purposes, this study was carried out on 120 patients and 120 nurses serving at two general hospitals located in Daegu, Korea, from the 10th to 20th of October, 1990.
@ES The result of this study was summarized as follows:
@EN The expectation of these nurses was averagely 3.85. Then, the expectation by fields was high in such order as facilitator and coordinator, while the expectation to the role as educator and change agent was same. The next expectation
was the
role as the advocator.
The expectation of these patients was averagely 3.60. The expectation by fields was high in such order as the facilitator, coordinator, change agent, advocator and educator.
The expectation to the nursing role between two groups was remarkably high in the nurses group, while their group also showed the higher expectation to the role as the coordinator, change agent and educator, with respect to fields.
The expectation of the nurses to the nursing role by general characteristics indicated a remarkable difference according to the age, service career and position.
The expectation to the nursing role by age was highest for 41 years old or more, while the lowest was for 26-30 years old, Also, the higher the position, the higher the expectation to the role, It was not that, however, the longer the
career,
the higher the expectation to the role.
There was no remarkable difference in the expectation of these patient to the nursing role by general characteristics.
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