J Korean Acad Nurs.  2002 Jun;32(3):344-354.

Evaluation of Government Assisted Visiting Nursing Services of Health Center in 2000

• Ko IS
• Kim CJ
• Lee TW
• Lee KJ
• Kim ES
• Ma HY
• Lee YS

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study is a fact-finding research to understand the status of visiting nursing services operated by health centers in Korea and it aims to provide basic information for policy development on operation and management of visiting nursing services in health centers. METHOD: This study investigates the results of visiting nursing services in 242 health centers from Jan. 10 through Dec. 30, 2000, where 3,106 visiting nurses were employed by the public work program. RESULT: In 2000, 129,401 new household as service recipients was identified and that was 0.9% of Koreas total households (15,137,000), and 5.8% of low income households (2,242,000). The highest high risk group was dementia patients(aver. 55.2/1,000 person). Average number of households visited by visiting nurse were 4.5 households per day and the first-visited houses per visiting nurse were 1.1 households per day. The re-visiting rate was 71.3%. Total 4,059,130 service items were provided and assessment ranked the highest with 33.7%. The satisfaction level of clients on the nurses was an average of 3.17 points in the scale of 4 and the nursing service was a 2.60 points in a scale of 3.
CONCLUSION
Visiting nursing service should continue to provide comprehensive healthcare services in cost-effective ways while cooperating with others.

Keyword

Health centers; Visiting nursing services

MeSH Terms

Comprehensive Health Care
Dementia
Family Characteristics
Korea
Nurses, Community Health
Nursing Services*
Nursing*
Policy Making