J Nurs Acad Soc.  1977 Dec;7(2):60-82.

A Comparative Study on the Curriculum of Nursing Education in America and Korea

• Kim JJ

Abstract

The purpose of this study is first, to analyse the present nursing education and the curriculum in Korea in view of the changes and the new tendency of nursing education and, second, to compare our curriculum with that of America, where nursing activities are actively earring on and, third, to try to find out what we should reconsider and improve in our nursing education. The object of this study is the educational program and the curriculum from 1973 to 19 76 by selecting each five from colleges and department of nursing in Korea and America. The results of the study were as fellows : 1 . The aim of nursing education puts emphasision the role of leader, knowledge and technology of nursing, walfare of society and service of community in both the America and Korea. In Korea nursing is mainly restricted to the treatment of diseases,while in the America the items of the aim of nursing are mainly extended to the capacity for Self-realization of nurse, in Korea they are restricted to the treatment of diseases. 2 . In Korea the rate of credit of the curriculum of nursing education is the highest in professional education, next in general education, next in supporting science and educational subject, while in America the rate of the credit is the highest in general education, next professional education and then supporting Science and educational subject isn't included in the curriculum. 3. In both Korea and America the role of the anmual credit allotment in general education, is the highest in the first year and the rate in supporting science is the highest in the second year. In Korea professional subjects are concentrated in the third year while in America there is a tendency that they are increasing in number in the grade order. 4 , There is a. tendency that the rate of the credit allotment of the main professional subjects in curriculum is higher in Korea than in America ; that is, in Korea the rate of the allotment of the credit is the highest in medical - surgical nursing, next maternalchild nursing, next community- health nursing and the psychiatric nursing and there in a great difference in the rate of the allotment of each credit. While in America the rate of the allotment of the credit is the highest in community health nursing, next in medical- surgial nursing, next in maternal - child nursing, and then in psychiatric nursing and there is little difference in the rate of the allotment of each credit. From general education, supporting science and professional education, they have considered the continuity and sequence in the structure of nursing curriculum of Korea and America. While in Korea we have partly made integration in the content of the subjects. Most ofthe school in America, they have made integration in the content of subjects especially in all subjects, but in Korea we haven't made it in all subjects. In the system and form of nursing education Problem solving method, Dialectical method and operational method are introduced in some America schools and in Others there is a tendency that the whole nursing education has the system based on Preventive frame -work or Health Illness frame work; while only one college has an attempt for Health Illness continum in Korea. In Korea nursing education,as the importance of health - nursing and team nursing, the aim which is also comparatively emphasized is about health management and service of collective community. The subject pertaining to the aim is the studies of community health nursing, which are more in number in America. When we consider the association between the social, general aims of the nursing education and the formation of the curriculum in Korean nursing school the courses of study concerning "the role of leadership and cooperative personal relation" "nursing care for the group"dynamic nursing care" and "the system of the public health nursing associated wilh the understanding of the regional community" are insufficient as compared with those of America. Especially, the lack of the behavioral sciece including the nursing care connected with the care for the group, the basic science on the clinical and developmental psychology, anthropology in known to be a prominent issue.

MeSH Terms

Americas*
Anthropology
Child
Community Health Nursing
Curriculum*
Ear
Education
Education, Nursing*
Education, Professional
Humans
Korea*
Leadership
Nursing Care
Nursing*
Nursing, Team
Perioperative Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing
Psychology
Public Health Nursing
Schools, Nursing