The job analysis of Korean nurses as a strategy to improve the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study aimed at characterizing Korean nurses' occupational responsibilities to apply the results for improvement of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination.

Methods

First, the contents of nursing job were defined based on a focus group interview of 15 nurses. Developing a Curriculum (DACOM) method was used to examine those results and produce the questionnaire by 13 experts. After that, the questionnaire survey to 5,065 hospital nurses was done.

Results

The occupational responsibilities of nurses were characterized as involving 8 duties, 49 tasks, and 303 task elements. Those 8 duties are nursing management and professional development, safety and infection control, the management of potential risk factors, basic nursing and caring, the maintenance of phy

SUBMITTER: Park IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4914484 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature