Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing

Original Articles

The Classification of Standard Nursing Activities in Korea: Jung Ho Park, Young Hee Sung, Mi Sook Song, Jung Sook Cho, Won Hee Sim; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2000;30(6):1411-1426. Published online March 29, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2000.30.6.1411

Abstract PDF: A nursing activity classification for hospitalized patients was performed based on an article review regarding nursing definition and nursing activity classification system. The study was conducted as follows: 1) Taxonomy was developed by the research team through the Delphi process and review article. The taxonomy consists of four nursing processes, (assessment, diagnosis, intervention and evaluation) and twelve nursing activity domains space (resperation, nutrition, elimination, exercise/alignment maintenance, comfort, hygiene, safety, spiritual support, counseling/ education, medication, communication, patient and information management). 2) First, nursing activities of the intervention process were listed and then classified by the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, intervention and evaluation. The list consists of twelve nursing activity domains and 136 nursing activities. 3) A pilot study was conducted in two hospitals to verify validity and appropriateness of nursing activities. 4) The content validity index, which was calculated by 6 clinical practice experts, was 0.95. Also, a nursing activity classification system should also be developed in the department of community nursing and home health care nursing.

Trends of Doctoral Dissertations in Nursing Science: Focused on Studies Submitted Since 2000: Hyunsook Shin, Kyung-Mi Sung, Seok Hee Jeong, Dae-Ran Kim; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2008;38(1):74-82. Published online February 29, 2008; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2008.38.1.74

Abstract PDF: Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of doctoral dissertations in nursing science submitted since 2000.
Methods
Three-hundred and five dissertations of six schools of nursing published from 2000 to 2006 in Korea were analyzed with the categories of philosophy, method, body of knowledge, research design, and nursing domain.
Results
In philosophy, 82% of all dissertations were identified as scientific realism, 15% were relativism, and 3% were practicism. Two-hundred and fifty dissertations (82%) were divided into a quantitative methodology and 55 dissertations (18%) were qualitative methodology. Specifically, 45% were experimental, 23% methodological, 13% survey and 17% qualitative designed researches. Prescriptive knowledge was created in 47% of dissertations, explanatory knowledge in 29%, and descriptive knowledge in 24%. Over 50% of all research was studied with a community-based population. In the nursing domain, dissertations of the practice domain were highest (48.2%).
Conclusion
Dissertations since 2000 were markedly different from the characteristics of the previous studies (1982-1999) in the increase of situation-related, prescriptive and community-based population studies. A picture of current nursing science identified in this study may provide a future guideline for the doctoral education for nursing.

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