간호생산성 개념틀 개발에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study was performed to develop the conceptual framework of the nursing productivity. The study efforts were made (1) to define the concept the nursing productivity, (2) to identify the elements of the productivity, and (3) to determine the relationship among the elements. With the aim, the study employed a descriptive analysis by way of reviewing various references related to the subject.

The nursing productivity consists of such elements as the nursing efficiency and Lhe nursing effectiveness which are complementary Lo each other. The nursing efficiency is the qualitative input/oul.-put ratio, while the nursing effectiveness represents the integrated outcome of such sub-elements as the degree of accomplishing nursing goals, the quality of nursing service, consumer's satisfaction, and the degree of improvement of nurse's attitude toward the quality care.

The nursing prodictivity can be estimated by summing up the nursing efficiency and the effectiveness.

By employing the system theory model, the elements of the nursing productivity consist of three elements; the input, the process, and the output. By the process elements, the system inputs are transformed to the system outputs nursing efficiency and nursing effecitveness which are input Lo the system, in turn, through feedback mechanism(Figure 4).