Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing 2005;7(1):7-19.

양로원과 요양원 간호사의 업무내용 비교

성기월, 신임희, 이경희, 권경희

Abstract

Purpose
The study was performed to compare the content of their jobs of the nurses working in the free elderly home with free nursing home in the whole country. Method: The subjects consisted of 138 nurses working in elderly home and nursing home. The data was collected from Jan. 1st to Feb. 22th 2005 using a structured questionnaire that included general characteristics, content of tasks which the nurse dose every day, health program, perceived job satisfaction and pay satisfaction scale. The collected data was analyzed by the SPSS(version 11.5) program including descriptive statistics, x^(2)-test.
Result
On the nurses in the free elderly homes and nursing homes, there were many patient diagnosing hypertension, arthritis and dementia. Recently the death rate in elderly home and nursing home was highly increased. The mean period of nurses working in elderly home and nursing home were 3.75 years and 2.76 years. Experience of staying with the elderly was 70.9% on nurses working in elderly home. and 73.2% on nurses working in nursing home. Daily allotment of the nurses working in elderly home and nursing home were health assessment, medication care and eating care. The highest priority rank of nursing care of the nurse working in elderly home and nursing home was health assessment. Mean number of the patient in daily nursing care of the nurse residing in elderly home and nursing home was referral to hospital on 1-5persons/day and then transfer care on 1-6persons/day. The highest health care program was an exercise program.
Conclusion
The resident nurses in the free elderly homes and nursing homes have had various types of tasks, and for their security a system for job satisfaction was needed.

Key words: 업무내용, 노인시설, 간호사, Content analysis