Analysis of Nurses' Perception on Total Care Service to Develop of Healthcare Training Simulation Tools in Korea

Abstract

This study aims to provide basic data required for the development of healthcare training simulation tools with an expansion of the total care service. Data were collected from nurses who were working at medical institutions located in Gyeong-gi province and Seoul, Korea, and the sample number was 156. This study was attempted as quantitative research through a questionnaire, and characteristics of the nurses in the hospitals operating the total care service and those in the hospitals not operating the total care service and their perceptions about the total care service were identified. In demographic characteristics between the hospitals operating the total care service and those not operating the total care service, of four items, including age, working period, subjective health status and monthly income, three items except for monthly income appeared homogeneous. 80 nurses (51.3%) perceived the necessity of the total care service while 75 nurses (48.1%) did not perceived its necessity. The understanding about the system of the total care service and the perception about the improvement of the quality of nursing service were sufficiently higher in the nurses in the hospitals operating the total care service than those in the hospitals not operating the total care service (t = 8.164, p< .000; t = 2.929, p =.004). The participants had higher perceptions about the improvement of quality of nursing, the necessity of liability insurance for nursing malpractice and the increase of nurses' duties with the expansion of total care service. It is expected that this study will be utilized as useful data for the development of healthcare training simulation tools with the settlement of total care service.