A Study on Intensive Major Course of Department of Nursing in College

Park, Song-Ja; Je, Mi-Soon

The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2004;10(1):64-74.
Published online December 31, 2004.

Park, Song-Ja;Je, Mi-Soon;

¹Department of Nursing, Seoul Health College
²Department of Nursing, Koje College

전문대학 간호과 전공심화과정 운영방안

박송자, 제미순

¹서울보건대학 간호과
²거제대학 간호과

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate what contents nurses want in the intensive major course of junior nursing college. Data were collected for four months from October 2002 to February 2003 by structured questionnaires. Subjects were 240 registered nurses in working at five hospitals and four public health centers and elementary or middle schools in the capital and its suburbs and country. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 8.0 program. The results of this study were summarized as follows : 1. Nurses working at hospitals want the programs which involve the contents as follows : emergency nursing/CPR, infection control, critical care, caner pt. care, pain control, hospice, pulmonary disease pt. care, analysis of lab. exam, heart disease pt. care, chronic disease pt. care, DM pt. care, digestive-system disease pt. care, nervous-system disease pt. care, elderly pt. care, immune-system disease pt. care, endocrine-system disease pt. care. 2. Nurses working at public health centers want the programs which involve the contents as follows : home nursing, family nursing, management of DM, HT, degenerative disease, and chronic liver disease, elderly pt. care, health education, maternity nursing, rehabilitation nursing. 3. Nurses working at elementary or middle schools want the programs which involve the contents as follows : prevention of drug abuse or misuse, sex education and consultation, health education, consultation technique, emergency care, prevention of child obesity, prevention and management of adult disease in children, teaching method, method of school health room management.

Key Words: Intensive major course