J Agric Med Community Health.  2019 Mar;44(1):28-38. 10.5393/JAMCH.2019.44.1.028.

Current State and the Future Tasks of Home Visit Nursing Care in South Korea

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  • 1College of Nursing, Jeju National University, Korea. eopark@jejunu.ac.kr

Abstract


OBJECTIVES
We searched and reviewed the literature including the laws or acts, statistics, guidelines, papers and conference proceedings related to home visit nursing care in South Korea. METHOD: We searched and reviewed the literature including the laws or acts, statistics, guidelines, papers and conference proceedings related to home visit nursing care in Korea.
RESULTS
There are three types of home care nursing in Korea. Public health center provides home visit nursing to vulnerable population by registered nurses for free, based on community health act in public health center. As of 2017, 1,261,208 people were enrolled in the visiting health program of public health center. Health behavior and disease management has been improved and showed having cost-benefit effect among the enrolled people in visiting health program. Visiting nursing care in long-term care services is provided by registered nurses or nurse aid, based on long-term care act. The cost is paid as the unit price according to service time. 1,095,764 older people used long-term care services in 2017, only 0.2% of total cost used for home visiting nursing. Even though the number of user of home visiting nursing, it was reported that users spent less medical cost and hospitalized shorter. Hospital-based home care nursing is provided to patients and their families under the prescription of a doctor by family nurse specialists who are employed by medical institute based on medical law. Four hundred sixty family nurse specialists worked for hospital-based home care nursing and hospital-based home care services accounted for 0.038% of total medical expenses in 2017.
CONCLUSION
Even though home visit nursing care services are different in aspect of legal basis, personnel, running institutes, and cost basis, home visit nursing care showed cost-benefit effect and good health outcomes. In order to advance home visit nursing care, the integrated home visiting care, improvement of working condition, and revision of legal basis should be considered.

Keyword

Home visit; Home care services; Korea

MeSH Terms

Academies and Institutes
Disease Management
Health Behavior
Home Care Services
Home Care Services, Hospital-Based
House Calls*
Humans
Jurisprudence
Korea*
Long-Term Care
Methods
Nurses
Nursing Care*
Nursing*
Prescriptions
Public Health
Running
Specialization
Vulnerable Populations
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