PURPOSE:
The purpose of this study was to seek the direction of
community health nursing practice
education focus on the
nursing education accreditation criteria.
METHODS:
We collected data through
e-mail survey to all of 202 Korean
nursing baccalaureate
education institute in April, 2016. The 93 professors
teaching community health nursing was responded about their affiliated institute (response rate 46.0%).
RESULTS:
The Korean
nursing graduates in Feb. 2016 was practiced 3.01 credits, 131.6 hours in
community health nursing course.
Community health nursing practice agency was
public health center (98.9%),
Public health center post (43.0%),
Public health center branch (32.3%) in order. The possibility to achieve the
course objectives up to national examination was recognised
Public health center (3.4),
Public health center post (3.3),
Public health center branch and
school (3.2) from 5 score likert scale. A lot of
nursing education institute have difficulty in clinical placement in
community health nursing practice agency that meet eligibility of preceptor and space gaining for only
nursing students.
CONCLUSION:
The
nursing education accreditation criteria in 3rd cycle have to be considered real
community health nursing practice situation and newly emerging
community health nursing fields.