Tertiary Hospitals' and Women's Special Hospitals' Postpartum Nursing Intervention Survey
10.22650/JKCNR.2019.25.1.55
- Author:
Hyunsoon PARK
1
;
Ha Woon KIM
;
Hee Jeong KIM
;
Soon Ick KIM
;
Eun Hye PARK
;
Nam Mi KANG
Author Information
1. Doctoral Student, Department of Nursing, Konkuk University Glocal Campus Graduate School, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Postpartum;
Nursing Intervention;
Time-Motion Studies;
Direct;
Indirect
- MeSH:
Benchmarking;
Classification;
Humans;
Korea;
Nursing;
Postnatal Care;
Postpartum Period;
Tertiary Care Centers;
Tertiary Healthcare
- From:
Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
2019;25(1):55-66
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study was done to assess development and postnatal care interventions in postnatal care intervention records for maternity ward nurses in tertiary hospitals and women's hospitals in South Korea. METHODS: This mixed-method research was a Time-Motion (TM) study. Data were collected through external observation of 12 nurses in 4 wards over 24 hours. Mann-Whitney U test and independent t-test were employed for the analysis of frequency and provision time of direct/indirect care activity. χ² (Fisher's exact test) was utilized to determine the difference in frequency between two groups. IBM SPSS 22.0 statistical program was employed for calculation. All statistical significance levels were at α= .05. RESULTS: According to the KPCS-1 (Korean Patient Classification System-1), women's hospitals are group 3 and tertiary hospitals, group 4. With respect to time difference in direct care, tertiary hospitals showed 791 minutes and women's hospitals, 399 a difference of 392 minutes. For time difference in indirect care, women's hospitals had 2,415 minutes while tertiary hospitals, 2,080, a difference of 335 minutes for women's hospitals. No difference was found in the average total care workload between the two institutions. Individual time also showed no difference (p>.05). CONCLUSION: High-risk maternal care strength in tertiary hospitals and breast-feeding strength in women's hospitals need to be benchmarked with each other.
