The job analysis of Korean nurses as a strategy to improve the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination.
- Author:
In Sook PARK
1
;
Yeon Ok SUH
;
Hae Sook PARK
;
Soo Yeon AHN
;
So Young KANG
;
Il Sun KO
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Curriculum; Focus groups; Job description; Korea; Nursing licensure
- MeSH: Curriculum; Focus Groups; Infection Control; Job Description; Korea; Licensure*; Licensure, Nursing; Methods; Nursing*; Risk Factors
- From:Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions 2016;13(1):24-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- 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 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.
