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Survey of Nurse Officers' Works in Divisional Healthcare Unit

  • 군진간호연구
  • Abbr : Korean Journal of Military Nursing Research
  • 2013, 31(1), pp.56~75
  • Publisher : Military Health Policy Research Center
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Nursing Science > General Nursing > Nursing Education

Hyun Jin Sook 1 Na, Jung Soon 2 Yang, Ju-youn 3 Oh, Yu-ra 4

1선린대학교 응급구조학과
2국군간호사관학교
3국군의무사령부
4국방부 근무지원단

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Purpose : This study was aimed at extracting and evaluating the relative importance of nurse officers’ nursing tasks at a divisional healthcare unit and thereby highlighting important roles of the nurse officer. Methods : Nineteen nurse officers who are working at the divisional healthcare unit were involved in this study and asked to complete a questionnaire. The parameters were evaluated by frequency, priority, competency and critical index of nurse officers' tasks. Results : Joining small meetings, inspecting facilities, task reports, washing hand and turning over patients were ranked as the most frequent jobs while oral hygiene had the lowest performance frequency. The parameters which ranked highly in critical index were requesting tests, artificial respiration, assessment of respiration and O2 therapy, which are closely associated with human vitality, while oral hygiene and bed baths were ranked the lowest importance index and related to personal hygiene. Checking vital signs, human body measurement, medication, dressing, education for patients and health promotion were associated with direct nursing practice and were found to be highly ranked in nursing competency, while oral hygiene, management for hazardous job worker, research were ranked the lowest in the nursing competence parameter. Conclusion : Health promotion task of the nurse officer at the unit, all of the nurse officers were being loaded with tasks related to the other basic medical systems at the unit, such as infection control and in-out patient care. Thus additional numbers of nurse officers at the unit are strongly needed.

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