J Nurs Acad Soc.  1974 May;4(1):81-94.

An Analytic Study on Curriculum in Nursing Education

• Doh BN

Abstract

The trend in modern nursing is toward the performance of comprehensive nursing cam. After liberation of 1945, nursing education in Korea has made rapid progress. The System of nursing education in Korea has come to the professional school of nursing and collegiate program from high School level. Under these situations, the improvement on curriculum of nursing education is necessary. This paper is a basic study for improvement of curriculum in nursing education. .1. The aims of this study are! 1) to analyze and compare the objectives of nursing education in Korea and U. S. A. 2) to analyze and compare the differences in curriculum of nursing education between Korea and U.S. A. 3) to find problems in nursing education of Korea 2. The curricula and bulletins from 2 colleges, 9 departments, 12 professional schools and 18 attached schools of nursing in Korea and 9 attached schools of nursing and 17 collleges in U. S. A. were collected for this study. 3. The results of this study; 1) Most of Korean programs lack for the student to make understand respect the human in the statement of their objectives. 2) Most of Korean programs prepare their graduate to function as a contributing member of the-health team in the hospital and the community, while the graduate of the American attached schools is prepared to function in genera! staff nursing and team leadership positions in hospitals. 3) Most of Korean programs of nursing education have low distribution of credits in supporting sciences. (especially sociology and psychology) 4) Too much proportion of tims in attached schools and less and less proportion of time in professional schools is distributed in clinical practice area. 5) In our collegiate programs, too much proportion of time is distributed in adult nursing and less proportion of time in Psychiatric nursing. 6) Professional area on curriculum of attached schools is devided into many detailed subjects. 7) A large number of credits in total are distributed at the first year in attached schools.

MeSH Terms

Adult
Curriculum*
Education, Nursing*
Humans
Korea
Leadership
Nursing*
Psychiatric Nursing
Sociology