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

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 (...

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Autores principales: Park, In Sook, Suh, Yeon Ok, Park, Hae Sook, Ahn, Soo Yeon, Kang, So Young, Ko, Il Sun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute 2016
Materias:
Technical Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27270987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3352/jeehp.2016.13.24
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Sumario: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 physiological integrity, medication and parenteral treatments, socio-psychological integrity, and the maintenance and improvement of health. CONCLUSION: The content of Korean Nursing Licensing Examination should be improved based on 8 duties and 49 tasks of the occupational responsibilities of Korean nurses.

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