Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the illness experience of patients with short bowel syndrome. Methods: Six patients with short bowel syndrome were recruited from a tertiary hospital in Korea. Semi-structured and face-to-face interviews were conducted with the participants between April, 2018 and October, 2018. The transcribed data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Three themes and nine sub-themes emerged as follows. The first theme is ‘suffering from bad symptoms caused by short bowel,’ including 1) difficult to suppress uncontrolled appetite, 2) fear of having abdominal pain at all time, and 3) having multiple diarrhea with non-digested food as sub-themes. The second theme is ‘enduring negative consequences of the prolonged disease,’ including 1) must adopt a skinny body to the bone, 2) have to be dependent on TPN, and 3) Suffer from complications such as infection and dehydration. The last theme was ‘having difficulties of living with hopelessness,’ including 1) being lack of information about the disease, 2) being hopeless of the fact that it is incurable, and 3) being nervous on endless medical bills to pay. Conclusion: Patients with short bowel syndrome are more likely to suffer from various physical, psychological, social, and financial problems. Based on the results of the study, health professionals could develop effective management guidelines. In addition, vigorous efforts such as multidisciplinary team approach including physicians, nurses, pharmacists and clinical dietitians are demanded to improve nutritional status and quality of life of the given population.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the nurse’s experiences of ‘work flow interruption’ in hospital settings. Methods: Data were collected by in-depth interviews with 6 nurse in General wards or in the ER of tertiary hospitals. Qualitative content analysis method was used to analyze the data. Results: The following three categories were elicited; ‘acceptable interruptions’, ‘unacceptable interruption’, ‘nursing work environment interrupting work flow’. Conclusion: The findings provided interruptions are occurring in systemic structure and relationships within the hospital, taking into account the aspect of providing quality nursing care as profession. This confirms that nurses have negative effect on workload rather than positive ones. Based on the findings, it needs to be of interest to the nurses at the organizational level in order to relieve the burden and fatigue due to overloaded work.

Purpose: Compassionate act is important factors for staff-nurse to be able for them to work within friendly organizational culture at a hospital setting. The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of the collective compassion process for human resources management in hospital. Collective compassion process was consisted of collectively noticing, collectively feeling, and collectively responding. Collective compassion process can decrease personal suffering at work settings. Compassion process have 3 dimensions-personal, organizational culture, and institutional. Methods: 22 staff nurses and 5 nurse managers were participated in the study. Data were collected with in-depth personal interviews. Collected data were analyzed with content analysis. Results: Staff nurse felt absence of compassion processes of 3 dimensions (personal, organizational culture, and institutional) when they were in suffering. However nurse managers asserted that hospital organization has the compassion processes of 3 dimensions for staff nurses. Absence of compassionate act in the nursing field was one of reasons that they quit their job. Conclusion: The result of this study provided one of the empirical evidences of the importance of compassion process in nursing organizations. Thus we recommend developing an intervention program to increase compassionate act for reducing nurse's suffering.

Purpose: We conducted phenomenological qualitative research to provide in depth understanding on infectious disease management. Methods: Participants were 10 nurses working in an isolation ward, where only patients with infectious diseases were institutionalized in one general hospital in Seoul. Data were collected through individual interviews and analyzed according to Colaizzi data analysis method. Results: The main theme of the experience of the nurses who worked in the isolated ward was ‘Nurse's sense of duty to overcome the fear of infection’. Through 83 meaningful re-statements and 13 themes, three sub-themes including ‘Unstable isolation ward’, ‘Taking care of infected patients’ and ‘Insufficient isolation patient care system’. Conclusion: Nurses, working in the new isolation ward, work in a lonely and dangerous environment having fear of infection, being lack of supplies and overcoming various psychological difficulties. In-depth understanding of these needs require efficient infection management policies, measures, and societal recognition.

Purpose: The research that uses hybrid model by Schwartz-Barcott & Kim recently gained attention in nursing academies due to its usefulness in practice. The number of research about the concept analysis and concept development using this method has been increased. The purpose of this study was to re-evaluate the Hybrid Model by Schwartz-Barcott & Kim. Methods: This study provided the concept, research design, research trends of Hybrid model through the comprehensive literature review and researcher’s analytical thinking. Results: Hybrid model was generally accepted in the literature as a new and comprehensive methodology. The design of Hybrid model, major components, strategies for sampling and data analysis, and usefulness of Hybrid model were examined. Also the research methodology in published articles in Korea were analysed. Conclusion: Hybrid model is very unique in terms as a method for concept analysis and development in the strength of combining theoretical analysis and empirical observation. Nursing researchers may take advantages of the Hybrid model in exploring nursing phenomena and concept in their research.