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KMID : 0353019740110020304
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1974 Volume.11 No. 2 p.304 ~ p.316
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A Study on Continuing Education for Nurses in Hospitals and Health Centers, Seoul
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Abstract
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Ongoing social change has forced nursing profession to accommodate its function to meet various health needs by improving ministered care quality and expanding nursing role in health care delivery system.
In this juncture continuing educating has been regarded as one of the most effective measures to improve care quality. In fact there art quite many opportunities for public health nurses as wall as hospital nurses to participate in continuing education programs nowadays. However, the quality of the programs including contents, lecturers and methods of teaching are so varied and the results wore very much doubtful. Therefore, this study is aimed at determining what is continuing education in Seoul and how continuing education should be planned from now on, by using pretested questionnaire to 314 nurses who were in 23 hospitals & health centers, Seoul, from the period of Aug. 1 to Sep. 7, 1974.
The major findings are as follows;
1) 62.2 percent of the 314 nurses responded for the study has been exposed to continuing education program during the last 1 year and the average number of attendance to continuing education program was 2.5 in one ycar. Thc main reasons for not having been exposed to continuing education mentioned were no continuing education opportunity (46.4%), time was not available (37.6%), and others.
2) It was indicated that the area or subjects to be supplemented by continuing education turned out to be nursing skill and knowledge (39.8%), interpersonal relationship (30.8%), and orientation to personnel and facilities to work with (26.8%).
3) The background of the lecturers who taught at continuing education programs were directors of nursing(24.6%), administrators(24.6%), specialists (4.6%), and others. 84.4 percent of the respondents showed interests in attending continuing education program in the future. 19.5 percent of those who have ever attended continuing education program in the past stated that they were satisfied by it.
4) 72.6% of the respondents have never been in library for the last 6 months. 79.0% have been studying something for professional growth, and the area which they are studying for were appeared to be professional knowledge(49.6%), learning English(9.3%), and others.
70% of the study has been carried out by herself.
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