The purpose of this study was to analyze the philosophy and objectives of nursing education, curriculum structure and educational environment in nursing schools of Korea. This analysis was based on the data from 19 baccalaureate nursing
schools
from January 15 to march 20, 1992.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN 1. Educational philosophy and objectives;
14 colleges had curricular philosophy. Main concepts of curricular philosophies were nurses role in the future, nursing, human being, health and society(environment). 17 colleges had curricular objectives were professional nurses and
leaders.
2. Curriculum;
The average required credits for graduation were 158.3. The average credits of cultural subjects were 46.7, basic science 27.6, and major subjects 84.0. In cultural subjects, ethics had lowest. In basic science, biological science had the
highest
credit, and sociological science had the lowest.
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