Estimating the Cost of Visiting Nursing Service by Visiting Nursing Model for Urban Public Health Center in Korea.
10.4040/jkan.2004.34.6.983
- Author:
Ho Sihn RYU
1
Author Information
1. College of Nursing, Korea University, Korea. hosihn@korea.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article ; English Abstract ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Keywords:
Cost;
Workload;
Visiting nursing service;
Health center
- MeSH:
Community Health Nursing/*economics;
Costs and Cost Analysis;
Humans;
Korea;
Public Health Nursing/*economics;
Urban Health Services/*economics
- From:
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
2004;34(6):983-993
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study focused on analysing costs per visiting nursing care based on nursing activities in a public health center. METHOD: The Easley-Storfjell Instrument(1997) was used for a prospective descriptive analysis of self-records for workload data from 10 visiting nurses during 4 weeks on all nursing activities. In addition, analysis of the 478 visiting nursing records and cost data from 5 home visiting departments in public health centers during one year of 2003 was done. RESULT: The workload of visiting nurses by the type of model was identified as follows: Type I showed that caseloads made up 32.9 % of all nurse activities, and type II showed that the caseloads made up 45.8 %. Second, The cost per visit in type I was 33,088 won and 31,323 won in type II. Third, the estimated budgets were 1,902,436 won to 12,057,696 won for the type I model. and 4,151,316 won to 17,432,712 won for the type II model for one year. CONCLUSION: This study's results will contribute to baseline data used to establish on infrastructure for visiting nursing program and visiting nursing agencies based on the budget of visiting nursing services.
