J Nurs Acad Soc.  1993 Mar;23(1):16-28.

The Image of Nursing projected in Newspapers

• Jung MS
• Kang YS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the image of nursing, that is, to see how nursing is viewed in newspapers. Articles about nursing from two Korean daily newspapers from Jan. 1,1987 to Dec. 31, 1991 were examined for subject, type, attitude and authorship. The inter-rater reliability was 0.89(by The Holsti method). The major findings were as follows; 1. The total number of articles were 110. 2. As for the subjests matter, articles related to professional nursing activities appeared most frequently (29.6%), there about labor issues and activity to promote nurses's job climate 19.4%, and about official activities of nursing 11.2%. 3. Commentary articles appeared most frequently(41.2%), Other article forms were straight news(27.1%), contribution(17.6%) and interviews (10.<6%). 4. Feature stories acounted for 62.4% and news articles for 37.6%. Most of the articles were of national interests (96.5%), the rest (3.5%) of news from abroad. 5. Articles favorable toward nursing accounted for 54.1%, neutral 28.2%, negative 17.6%. 6. Many articles were written by the reporters (66.3%).

MeSH Terms

Authorship
Climate
Periodicals*
Nursing*