Purpose@#The purpose of this study is to extend the
knowledge about the
textbook,
Public Health Nursing Textbook (in Korean, Gongjungwisaeng Kanhohak) which is published in 1933 by the
Nurses'
Association of
Korea. @*
Methods@#
Public Health Nursing Textbook was investigated from the cover page to the last page and compared with two original
books and other
nursing books published in modern
Korea. @*Results@#
Public Health Nursing Textbook was the forth published Korean
nursing textbook and the first published Korean
public health nursing textbook. Rosenberger, a
missionary nurse from USA, Lee Keumjeon, Korean
public health nurse who studied in
Canada, and other
Koreans were in
charge of translation, etc. It is a user‐friendly
book written mainly in Korean (Hangul) with
Chinese characters and included the English table of contents, preface and
back cover. Most of its contents were extracted and translated from two original
books, one is
Public Health Nursing by Mary Gardner and the other is Personal
Hygiene Applied by Jesse Williams. It is worth noting that the
book not only introduced the
public health nurses’s activities across the country, but also focused on the information necessary for common
health problems at that
time. @*Conclusion@#From the Public
Hygiene and
Nursing, it can be seen that
public health nurses had been independently educated since Imperial
Japan’s colonial period, and
public health nursing was growing as a independent field in
Korea.