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Effects of Noise Block on Anxiety and Vital Sign of Patients with Gynecologic Laparoscopic Surgery in Operating Room.

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2012;21(3):317-325.

PURPOSE: This study was to examine the effects of noise block on anxiety and vital sign of gynecologic laparoscopic surgery. METHODS: The data were collected from March to May 2011. Participants were sixty patients with gynecologic laparoscopic surgery, divided into 30 of experimental group and 30 of control group at C University hospital located in I city. The day before surgery, demographic data, trait-state anxiety and vital signs were measured at ward. After noise block, the data were measured using VAS anxiety and vital signs before anesthesia and in recovery room. And then state anxiety and vital signs were measured in ward after surgery. The data were analyzed by chi2-test, t-test, repeated measured ANOVA and Bonferroni comparison method using SPSS/WIN 19.0. RESULTS: After conducting noise block program, the experimental group showed significant decrease in state anxiety and heart rate compared to those of the control group. But there were not significant differences in VAS anxiety, systolic pressure and diastolic pressure between two groups. CONCLUSION: This program can be regarded as an effective nursing intervention for the management of anxiety with gynecologic laparoscopic surgery.
Anesthesia ; Anxiety ; Blood Pressure ; Heart Rate ; Humans ; Laparoscopes ; Laparoscopy ; Noise ; Operating Rooms ; Recovery Room ; Vital Signs

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Perception and Practice of Hospital Infection Control of Nursing Staff depending on the Supplementation of Nurses in Long-term Care Hospitals.

Ji Hyean LEE ; Ga Eon LEE

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2012;21(3):308-316.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe the perception and practice of hospital infection control of nursing staff in long-term care hospitals by the level of supplementation of nurses. METHODS: The participants were 212 nurses and nurse assistants in 13 long-term care hospitals in a metropolitan city and the data were gathered by self-reported questionnaires during August 2011 and analyzed by SPSS/WIN program. RESULTS: The beds per a nurse were 15, and the proportion of nurses among nursing staff in long-term care hospitals was about 33%. In general, the level of infection control in practice was lower than that of perception. The highest perception and practice domain was 'Management of disinfection/contamination', and the lower level domains were 'Personal hygiene' and 'Hand washing' There were statistically significant differences in the hospital infection control of perception and practice depending on age, education, career in long-term care hospital, job position, the quantity of beds, nurse, and nurse assistant, beds per a nurse and proportion of nurses in hospitals. CONCLUSION: According to these results, the systematic and continual education on hospital infection control of the nursing staff in long-term hospitals should be carried out. In addition, the policy to add more nurses into long-term care hospitals must be implemented.
Cross Infection ; Humans ; Infection Control ; Long-Term Care ; Nursing Staff ; Surveys and Questionnaires

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Influence of Internal Marketing Perception, Empowerment, and Job satisfaction on Customer Orientation of Clinical Nurses.

Eun Ah YI ; Yeo Jin YI

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2012;21(3):299-307.

PURPOSE: This descriptive study attempted to identify the influence of internal marketing perception, empowerment, and job satisfaction on customer orientation of clinical nurses. METHODS: The subjects were 411 nurses with over one year working experience in a university hospital, located in I-city. The data were collected from April 20 to 30, 2012. using a self-report questionnaire. The data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 17.0 program. RESULTS: There were significant differences in customer orientation depending on general characteristics(age, marital status, education, position, clinical experience, and department). Internal marketing perception, empowerment, and job satisfaction correlated with customer orientation. As the results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis for impact factors on nurses' customer orientation show, factors are the outpatient department in working places(beta=.10), education and training in internal marketing perception(beta=.12) and empowerment(beta=.44), which accounted for 31.1% of customer orientation. CONCLUSION: Therefore, nurse managers should identify the needs to perceive nurses as internal customers, and the internal marketing strategy should be performed to empower nurses. Also, it is needed to place nurses with high customer orientation at the outpatient department.
Humans ; Hypogonadism ; Job Satisfaction ; Marital Status ; Marketing ; Mitochondrial Diseases ; Nurse Administrators ; Ophthalmoplegia ; Orientation ; Outpatients ; Power (Psychology) ; Surveys and Questionnaires

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Relationships among Self Efficacy, Social Support, and Health Promoting Behaviors in Correctional Officers.

Yeongmi HA ; Hyunkyung CHOI

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2014;23(3):163-170. doi:10.5807/kjohn.2014.23.3.163

PURPOSE: The purpose of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to examine relationships among self efficacy, social support, and health promoting behaviors in correctional officers. Factors that influence health promoting behaviors of correctional officers were also assessed. METHODS: Two hundred correctional officers completed a pack of self-report questionnaires. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression. RESULTS: There were statistically significant differences in health promoting behaviors depending on marital status and subjective health status. Significant positive correlations among self-efficacy, social support, and health promoting behaviors were found. Factors influencing health promoting behaviors of correctional officers were social support, subjective health status, marital status, and self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: Considering the findings from this study, health care providers need to develop effective nursing interventions which increase the level of self-efficacy and social support for correctional officers and to help correctional officers practice health promoting behaviors.
Cross-Sectional Studies ; Health Personnel ; Health Promotion ; Humans ; Marital Status ; Nursing ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Self Efficacy*

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Factors Affecting Nurse's Health Promoting Behavior: Focusing on Self-efficacy and Emotional Labor.

Eunyoung HONG

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2014;23(3):154-162. doi:10.5807/kjohn.2014.23.3.154

PURPOSE: This study examined self-efficacy, emotional labor, and health promoting behaviors. It also investigated factors affecting health promoting behaviors of nurses working for tertiary and general hospital. METHODS: Between June and July 2013, a convenience sample of 233 subjects was collected from 2 tertiary hospitals and 4 general hospitals. The data analysis was done with ANOVA, t-test and stepwise multiple regression. RESULTS: Emotional labor of the subjects was slightly lower than that of other nurses and the average level of health promoting behaviors was lower than the median. Health promoting behaviors were differentiated by education, hospital type, and monthly income. Self-efficacy showed positive correlation with HPLP-II, but emotional labor showed negative correlation with self-efficacy and HPLP-II. The most significant factor affecting health promoting behaviors was self regulation(16.3%). The combination of self regulation, attentiveness to required display rules, BSN, preference to task difficulty, and monthly income(> or =300) accounted for 25.4% of health promoting behavior. Attentiveness to required display rules was a negative factor of HPLP-II. CONCLUSION: When developing health promotion programs for nurses, self-efficacy should be considered and further research is needed to identify mediating variables between emotional labor and health promoting behaviors.
Education ; Health Promotion ; Health Status ; Hospitals, General ; Negotiating ; Self Efficacy ; Self-Control ; Statistics as Topic ; Tertiary Care Centers

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The Factors Influencing on Employment Stress of University Students.

Eun Kyung BYUN ; Suk Ja YOON ; Kyung Hee KIM

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2014;23(3):146-153. doi:10.5807/kjohn.2014.23.3.146

PURPOSE: This study examined to explore factors influencing on employment stress of university students. METHODS: The data were collected by structured questionnaires to students who agreed to be the subjects of this study. And 230 cases were finally analyzed. T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression were conducted for data analysis using SPSS/WIN 18.0. RESULTS: Significant differences revealed in age, department of major, residental type and school year on employment stress by general characteristics. Also, employment stress showed negative correlation with self-esteem, and satisfaction in major. Self-esteem and satisfaction in major, department of major were confirmed as a factors influencing on employment stress and accounted for 36% of the variance. CONCLUSION: Further studies that discover factors influencing on employment stress of university students are needed, and also practical programs are necessary to decrease employment stress of university students.
Employment* ; Humans ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Statistics as Topic

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Predictors of Clinical Nurses' Presenteeism.

Miji KIM ; Hyang Ok CHOI ; Eunjung RYU

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2014;23(3):134-145. doi:10.5807/kjohn.2014.23.3.134

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting clinical nurses' presenteeism. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used in which participants completed self-report questionnaires that consisted of measures for nurses' job satisfaction, job stress, professionalism and presenteeism. 267 nurses working in general hospital participated in this study. Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate predictors of the presenteeism in clinical nurses. RESULTS: 250 nurses experienced one or more health problems last one month. The group who experienced presenteeism during the last one year had significant differences in professionalism and perceived productivity. Predictors of sickness presenteeism in clinical nurses included work experience, total health problem and last 1 year absenteeism. Last 1 year absenteeism and total health problem were strongly related to presenteeism in clinical nurses. CONCLUSION: Major findings of this study indicated that in dealing with nurses' presenteeism, not only managing nurses' job stress and job satisfaction but also providing flexible work schedule and increasing staffing level as an organizational approach are necessary to be considered. Further repeated and expanded research is needed to explore the multidimensional aspects of nurses' presenteeism including a broad range of work setting and the influence of Korean nurses' organizational culture on presenteeism.
Absenteeism ; Appointments and Schedules ; Efficiency ; Hospitals, General ; Job Satisfaction ; Logistic Models ; Organizational Culture ; Surveys and Questionnaires

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The Effects of Self-efficacy and Collective Efficacy on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of Nurses.

Gun Saeng KANG ; Jeong Hee KIM

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2014;23(3):123-133. doi:10.5807/kjohn.2014.23.3.123

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among self-efficacy, collective efficacy, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of nurses working in general hospitals. METHODS: Data were collected from 239 nurses working in five general hospitals of a local area by self-reported questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and hierarchial multiple regression. RESULTS: Self-efficacy, collective efficacy, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment showed significantly positive correlations. Hierarchial multiple regression analysis showed that self-efficacy was the main factor of affecting job satisfaction, which explained 14.3% of the variance for the nurses' job satisfaction together with collective efficacy and weekly working time. In addition, the primary factor of affecting organization commitment was self-efficacy, which accounted for 17.2% of the variance for the nurses' organizational commitment together with hospital size and shift work. CONCLUSION: Self-efficacy and nursing working condition such as working time or hospital size contributed to the job satisfaction and organizational commitment and collective efficacy contributed to the job satisfaction. Therefore, the strategies for improving self and collective efficacy should be considered. Further study is also needed to investigate the concept of collective efficacy and its' measurement, and the relationship between collective efficacy and organizational commitment.
Health Facility Size ; Hospitals, General ; Job Satisfaction* ; Nursing ; Surveys and Questionnaires

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A Study of Occupational Satisfaction, Stress and Customer Orientation of Upper-scale General Hospital Nurses.

Hyun Lim KANG

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2010;19(2):268-277.

PURPOSE: To examine the relations among occupational satisfaction, stress, and customer orientation of upper-scale general hospital nurses. METHOD: We studied with structured questionnaires with total 66 questions for 218 nurses working at university hospitals in Gangwon-do from February 2 to 22, 2010. RESULT: Occupational satisfaction and customeroriented character increased when nurses' ages and career experiences were higher, married, working in daytime without shift and in higher positions. Occupational stress increased when nurses were younger, not married, with three shifts, and when they were general nurses. However, there was no statistical difference. Customer-oriented character had positive correlation with occupational satisfaction and stress while occupational satisfaction had negative correlation(r=-0.358) with occupational stress. CONCLUSION: As occupational stress and satisfaction of nurses in university hospitals showed significant relations with customeroriented character, t is necessary to reduce occupational stress of nurses, and strengthen occupational satisfaction of them.
Hospitals, General ; Hospitals, University ; Job Satisfaction ; Orientation ; Questionnaires

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The Effects of Case Management Program for Diabetic Patients: Focused on Medium-sized Industrial Workers.

Hyun Jung HWANG ; Hye Sun JUNG

Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2010;19(2):258-267.

PURPOSE: This paper studies the influence of the case-management program on the change of blood sugar, lifestyle, and knowledge level of diabetes mellitus (DM) for medium-sizedenterprise employees suffering from DM. METHOD: Subjects, divided into experimental and control groups, are 59 workers with FBS higher than 126mg/dl or under DM medication treatment in the medium-sized enterprises, being managed by two distinct university hospital group occupational health management service teams. The case management program for DM patients consists of 6 different processes in which each subject is treated. RESULT: FBS decreased in the experimental group after the program, while that of the control group increased significantly. In the experimental group, the amount of smoking, the frequency of drinking and the amount of drinking per week decreased. Also, the knowledge level for DM and the change of nutrition management showed significant increase. In the control group, the amount of smoking increased and the frequency of drinking, the amount of drinking and nutrition level did not change significantly. And the knowledge level for DM decreased. CONCLUSION: We expect that taking this case management program for DM management may significantly improve diabetic patients' overall health.
Blood Glucose ; Case Management ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Drinking ; Humans ; Life Style ; Occupational Health ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Stress, Psychological

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