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A Survey on the Use of Visiting Nurses in Child Day Care Centers

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Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2011;22(2):87-99
Publication date (electronic) : 2014 April 04
doi : https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2011.22.2.87
Soon Ok Yang1, Shin-Jeong Kim1, Myung Soon Kwon2, Seung-Hee Lee3, Sung-Hee Kim4
1Professor, Division of Nursing, Hallym University, Korea.
2Associated Professor, Division of Nursing, Hallym University, Korea.
3Full-time Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Catholic Sang-Ji College, Korea.
4Assistant Professor, Redcross College of Nursing, Korea.
Address reprint requests to: Kim, Shin-Jeong, Division of Nursing, Hallym University, 1 Okchun-dong, Chunchon 200-702, Korea. Tel: 82-33-248-2721, Fax: 82-33-248-2734, ksj@hallym.ac.kr
Received 2011 February 14; Revised 2011 May 04; Accepted 2011 May 25.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to contribute children's health care and health promotion by surveying the use of visiting nurses in child day care centers.

Methods

This study is a descriptive study, and the study period covers July to September, 2010. The research subjects were 27 public health center managers, 166 visiting nurses and 137 child care teachers.

Results

Teachers' need of visiting health care services and visiting nurses' work performance of were statistically significantly different. The teachers' need of visiting health care was higher in all areas (health examination, health life practice, infectious disease control, safety accidents and disaster management, emergency measures and linkage, nutrition, parent education) but the visiting nurses had a low level of work performance.

Conclusion

Child care teachers are not health professionals for child health care, and therefore they are in need of professional help. Thus, for the current public health centers in need of customized visit health care, new visiting nurses in charge of professional child health care need to be developed. Also, new models need to be developed for visiting nurses and child care teachers through the connection of community child health care.

Keywords: Visiting nurses; Child care; Child day care centers

Notes

This study was supported by Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea.

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© 2011 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

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Funded by : Gangwon Province
Award ID : HL-10-062

Table 1

General Characteristics of Subjects (N=330)

Table 1

Table 2

Health Care Services for Children in Day Care Center Provided by Public Health Centers (N=27)

Table 2

Table 3

Need on Visiting Health Care Services of Teachers and the Degree of Work Performance of Visiting Nurses

Table 3

Table 4

The Difference of Need on Visiting Health Care Services of Teachers and the Degree of Work Performance of Visiting Nurses according to General Characteristics

Table 4

HE=health examination; HLP=healthy lifestyle practice; IDC=infectious disease control; SADM=safety accidents and disaster management; EML=emergency measures and linkage; N=nutrition; PE=parent education.