Nurses’ Perception about Comprehensive Nursing Service

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analysis the nurses’ perception about comprehensive nursing service to provide basic information for being enlargement of comprehensive nursing service policy. This study was quantitative research to compare with comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses' perception and non comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses' perception using questionnaires. 156 nurses who working 3 general hospitals at the comprehensive nursing service and 3 general hospitals at the non comprehensive nursing service around Seoul areas. This study achieved the approval of IRB committee (HY-14-07-12) before the start. The participants' demographic characteristics were analyzed by frequency, percentage and nurses' perception about comprehensive nursing service by independent sample t-test. Between the comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses' perceptions and non comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses' perceptions, there was the homogeneity of 3variance as ages, job duration and subjective health status, but not in monthly income. In regards to comprehensive nursing service, ‘necessary’ was 80 (51.3%) and ‘unnecessary’ was 75 (48.1%). The perception of about comprehensive nursing service of comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses was statistically significantly higher than that of non comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses (t=8.164, p<.000). And the perception of policy and quality about comprehensive nursing service of comprehensive nursing service hospital nurses was statistically significantly higher than that of noncomprehensive nursing service hospital nurses, too(t=2.929, p=.004). However, there was no statistically significant differences about the comprehensive nursing service task (t==1.883, p=.062) and comprehensive nursing service responsibility (t=1.354, p=.178) between two hospitals. If the government wants to expand comprehensive care services, it is the first important thing to be established in the legislation requiring of a working standard for a scope of work and teamwork within clear makeup and responsibilities of nurses. In other words, the legal status and the institutionalization of the scope that nurses must follow was expressed strongly. This study expects to be useful resources for providing the psychological and environmental institutions for nurses so as to concentrate on their nursing service in the hospital for steady resettlement of comprehensive nursing service.