IDENTIFICATION OF NURSING INTERVENTIONS IN KOREA (TRANSLATION).
Contributors: University of Iowa.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Health Care Management.; Speech Communication.
Description: The purposes of the research were: to identify nursing interventions performed by Korean nurses, to compare the interventions performed by Korean nurses with those performed by U.S. nurses, and to describe the problems and difficulty of translation of a standardized language. The sample consisted of 443 nurses working in two hospitals in Korea. The Nursing Interventions Use questionnaire developed by the Iowa Intervention Project team was used for data collection. The instrument was translated to Korean using the method of back-translation. The Korean data were compared with data previously collected from a U.S. sample of 219 nurses.

Each of the 336 interventions in the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) were identified as used by Korean nurses. Twenty-one interventions were used at least daily. Nurses working in various specialties performed similar interventions as well as ones unique to that area of specialty practice. More educated and experienced nurses performed more interventions more often than less educated and experienced nurses. Overall, both Korean and U.S. nurses used the interventions in the Physiological:Complex domain most often on a daily basis and the interventions in the Family domain least often. U.S. nurses performed more interventions on a daily basis than Korean nurses. The top interventions reported as being used daily by both Korean and U.S. nurses were: Medication Administration: Parenteral and Active Listening. The intervention performed least often by both Korean and U.S. nurses was Animal Assisted Therapy. The U.S. nurses working in intensive care units performed more interventions than Korean nurses working in intensive care units, while the Korean nurses working in non-intensive care units performed more interventions than the U.S. nurses working in non-intensive care units.

Three factors that made translation difficult were identified: structural differences between English and Korean, long modifier phrases in English, and nonequivalent words in Korean.

This study adds to the growing body of work that uses nursing interventions to determine costs of nursing services, enhance quality of nursing care, and build a unique body of knowledge in nursing.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01, Section: B, page: 0247.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 1995.

School code: 0096.