Purpose: The study aim was to understand the experiences of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses in labor union activities. Methods: A descriptive qualitative study and content analysis were conducted. The participants included nine ICU nurses who shared their experiences with labor union activities. The data were collected through in-depth interviews. Results: The experiences of ICU nurses with labor union activities encompassed five themes: “The Initial Step in Union Activities”, “Benefits Derived from Union Participation”, “Concerns Regarding Union Activities”, “The Non-Omnipotence of Unions”, and “Achieving Mutual Benefits through Union Activities”. Conclusion: The study findings revealed that ICU nurses strive to improve their work and the nursing environment through labor unions, despite facing negative perceptions of union involvement.

본 연구의 목적은 종합병원 간호사의 임파워먼트와 직무소진이 감염관리 수행에 미치는 영향요 인을 확인하기 위한 서술적 조사연구이다. 대상자는 D시에 소재한 종합병원에서 근무하고 있는 간호사 총 210명을 대상으로 2023년 9월 15일부터 10월 31일까지 자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS/WIN 25.0 프로그램을 이용하여 기술통계, t-test, ANOVA, Sheffe, Pearson’s correlation, multiple regression을 이용하여 분석하였다. 연구결과, 임파워먼트와 감염관리 수행은 양의 상관관계를 보였으며, 임파워먼트가 감염관리 수행에 가장 영향을 미치는 요인으로 분석되었으며, 14.8%의 설명력을 보였다. 따라서 간호사의 임파워먼트를 향상시킬 수 있는 효율적인 감염관리 수행을 위한 프로그램 및 정책반영이 필요하다.

본 연구는 간호사의 대인관계 능력이 재직 의도와 이직 의도에 미치는 영향을 경력집단별로 파 악하기 위해 수행되었다. 연구대상은 편의표집에 의한 일개 종합병원의 일반 간호사 192명이었다(경력 36 개월 이하 95명, 37개월 이상 97명). 자료수집 기간은 2022년 2월 15일-22이었다. 자료 분석은 t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis 등을 통해 이루어졌다. 연구결과를 보면, 이 직 의도가 여자에서 더 높게 나타났다. 그리고 경력 37개월 이상 집단에서 대인관계 능력이 재직 의도와 정적 상관관계가 있었다. 대인관계 능력의 재직 의도에 대한 영향의 분석에서는 37개월 이상 집단에서 유 의한 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 대인관계 능력의 이직 의도에 대한 영향은 유의하게 나타나지 않았다. 결론 적으로 간호사들의 재직 의도 증진을 위해 대인관계 능력 강화를 위한 전략을 구축할 필요가 있으며, 이때 경력을 고려해야 할 것이다.

본 연구는 종합병원 간호사의 감정노동과 감성지능이 소진에 미치는 영향요인을 확인하기 위 한 서술적 조사연구이다. 연구대상자는 종합병원에 근무하는 임상경력 6개월 이상인 간호사 150명이었다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 21.0 프로그램을 이용하여 t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Multiple regression analysis로 분석하였다. 대상자의 소진에 미치는 영향요인을 검증하기 위해 다중회귀분석 결과, 감성지능(β=-.441, p<.001), 감정노동(β=.403, p<.001), 현 직위는 책임간호사 이상 이(β=-0.111, p<.018), 지각된 건강상태는 건강한 경우(β=-.100, p<.029) 순이었다. 또한 추정된 회귀모 형의 적합도에 대한 F통계량은 35.51(p<.001)으로 매우 유의하였고, 설명력은 79.7%인 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 간호사의 소진을 감소시키기 위해 감정노동을 줄이고 건강 및 감성지능을 향상 시킬 수 있는 방안 을 모색하고 소진을 낮추기 위한 중재프로그램을 개발하는데 기초자료로 유용하게 활용될 것으로 사료된 다.

Purpose: This study was attempted to investigate the relationship among workplace bulling, organizational silence, organizational justice, ethical climate, and intent to leave in hospital nurses. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey. Data were collected from 267 full-time nurses working at one general hospital in South Korea from June 10 to 30, 2022 and analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 program. Results: As a result of the study, workplace bullying averaged 1.81 (out of 4), organizational silence 2.60 (out of 5), organizational fairness 3.06 (out of 5), ethical climate 3.57 (out of 5), and intent to leave was 2.88 (out of 5). The higher workplace bullying and organizational silence, the lower organizational justice and ethical climate, the intent to leave of hospital nurses was high. Organizational justice, workplace bullying, and age could explain their intent to leave of 37.0%. Conclusion: It Is found that it is important to increase organizational justice and prevent workplace bullying in order to lower hospital nurses' intent to leave. So it is concluded that managers should disclose the process and results of organization operation, and prepare measures to prevent bullying in the workplace centered the vulnerable.

The purpose of this study was to examine the current satisfaction levels with nurse uniforms at Taizhou General Hospital in China and to find areas for improvement in order to develop nurse uniforms with improved comfort, fit and convenience. To investigate satisfaction with nurse uniforms, a survey was conducted of 150 nurses. The general characteristics of the nurses, uniform conditions, feelings of satisfaction, fit, preferred designs, inconvenient aspects of the uniforms, and areas for improvement were analyzed. Eight materials of cotton/polyester blended fabrics were selected according to Chinese nurse uniform regulations, and the physical properties of the materials were tested along with the materials used in current nurse uniforms. Four new nurse uniforms with increased aesthetics, functionality, and comfort were developed based on the survey results. Materials with excellent absorption, moisture permeability, and ventilation were used as main fabrics. According to the preferred designs of nurses at Taizhou City General Hospital, China, 4 types of nurse uniforms designed, consisting of design 1 (shirt and pants), design 2 (shirt and pants), design 3 (dress), and design 4 (shirt and skirt). The new nurse uniforms offered better functionality with an improved fit at the armpits, waist, hips, and knees based on product measurements.

본 연구는 종합병원 간호사의 감정노동, 직무스트레스와 간호업무성과 정도를 살펴보고 간호업무성과에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위한 서술적 조사연구이다. 연구 대상자는 G 광역시에 소재한 200∼400병상 규모의 종합병원 2곳에 근무하는 간호사 132명이었고 자료수집 기간은 2019년 8월 20일 부터 9월 2일까지였으며 본 연구자가 직접 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 21.0 프로그램을 이용하여 빈도와 백분율, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test, Pearson's correlation coefficient 및 Multiple regression analysis로 분석하였다. 연구결과, 대상자의 간호업무성과에 미치는 영향요인은 회복탄력성(β=0.58, p<.001), 현 직위가 수간호사인 경우(β=0.21, p<.01), 현 근무지경력(β =0.18, p<.05)이었다. 또한, 추정된 회귀모형의 적합도에 대한 F통계량은 30.901(p<.001)으로 매우 유의 하였고, 설명력은 42.4%인 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과, 종합병원 간호사의 간호업무성과에 회복탄력성이 가장 큰 영향요인으로 확인되었고, 수간호사일수록, 현 근무지경력이 많을수록 간호업무성과가 높 은 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 연구결과를 토대로 간호업무성과를 향상시키기 위한 방안을 모색하고 이에 대한 중재프로그램을 개발하는 기초 자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the turnover experience of nurses who moved from a tertiary medical institution to a general hospital and to understand the meaning of the move for them. Methods: This is a phenomenological qualitative study using Colaizzi's (1978) method. Semi-structured, open-ended questions and in-depth interviews were conducted to 11 nurses within 3 years after turnover to a general hospital at a tertiary medical institution, between April, 2018 to September, 2018. Results: The four theme clusters and thirteen themes emerged. The core theme licited I was “the journey to find-balance and leave.” Four theme clusters were; “advance to a dream job”, including ‘expectation for my work’, ‘my confidence and family pride’, “unstable my dream job” including ‘stand alone in a desert’, ‘crushed by extra work’, ‘torn protection’, ‘invisible future’, “my job that I wish to keep” including ‘unconditional patience for growth’, “I can't be a loser” is desperate selfinspiration’, ‘leaning on comfort and support', and finally “my place I found again.” including ‘being prepared to be by my side’, ‘restoring work-life balance’, ‘revealed my existence’, and ‘unsatisfied with new work’. Conclusion: Participants choose of turnover for physical and psychological well-being, instead of the romance of the tertiary medical institution. This showed the characteristics of the millennial generation that values the comfort and relaxation in one's life prior to professional vision of nursing care as a nurse, and success. The result is meaningful as an understanding of effective job management for current-generation clinical nurses.

2016 Gyeongju and 2017 Pohang earthquakes led Koreans to acknowledge that the Korean peninsula is not an earthquake-free zone anymore. Among various buildings crucial to after-shock recovery, general hospital buildings, especially existing old ones, are very significant so seismic retrofitting of those must be an important issue. Self-centering energy dissipative(SCED) brace is one of retrofitting methods, which consists of tendon with restoring force and friction device capable of dissipating seismic energy. The strength of the SCED brace is that the tendon forces a structure to go back to the original position, which means residual drift can be negligible. The residual drift is a very important parameter to determine usableness of general hospitals after shock. To the contrary, buckling-restrained braces(BRB) are also a very effective way to retrofit because they can resist both compressive and tensile, but residual drift may exist when the steel core yields. On this background, the seismic retrofitting effect of general hospitals reinforced with SCED braces was investigated and compared to that of the BRD in this study. As a result, although the floor acceleration cannot be reduced, the story drift and residual drift, and the shear demand of walls significantly decreased. Consequently, seismic retrofitting by SCED braces are very effective for domestic low-rise general hospitals.

Pigs have been extensively used as mediators of xenotransplantation research. Specifically, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) miniature pig was developed to fix major histocompatibility antigens for use in xenotransplantation studies. We generated transgenic pigs for xenotransplantation using MGH pigs. However, it has not been studied yet whether these pigs show similarity of reproductive physiological characteristics to wild types of MGH miniature pig. In this study we analyzed the estrous cycles and pregnancy characteristics of wild type (WT) and transgenic MGH miniature pigs, which were α1,3-galactosyltransferase (GalT) heterozygous and homozygous knock-out, and membrane cofactor protein (MCP) inserted in its locus, GalT-MCP/+ and GalT-MCP/-MCP pigs. Estrous cycles of WT, GalT-MCP/+ and GalT-MCP/-MCP pigs were 20.9±0.74, 20.1±1.26, and 17.3±0.87 days, respectively, and periods of estrous were 3.2±0.10, 3.1±0.12, and 3.1±0.11 days. The periods of gestation of WT, GalT-MCP/+ and GalT-MCP/-MCP pigs were 114.2±0.37, 113.3±0.67, and 115.4±0.51 days, respectively. Litter sizes of WT, GalT-MCP/+ and GalT-MCP/-MCP pigs were 4.8±0.35, 4.8±1.11 and 3.0±0.32 respectively. There were no significant differences on estrous cycle, periods of estrous and gestation, and litter size among WT, GalT-MCP/+ and GalT-MCP/-MCP pigs, meaning that GalT knock-out and additional expression MCP of the MGH miniature pig did not effect on reproduction traits. These results provide relevant information to establish breeding system for MGH transgenic pig, and for propagation of GalT-MCP/-MCP pig to supply for xenotransplantation research.

The building which are essential for disaster recovery is classified as a special seismic use group. Especially, achievement of seismic performance is very important for the hospital, so the hospital should be able to maintain its function during and right after an earthquake without significant damage on both structural and non-structural elements. Therefore, this study aimed at checking the seismic performance of a hospital building, but which was limited to structural elements. For the goal, a plan with a configuration of general hospitals in Korea was selected and designed by two different seismic-force-resisting systems. In analytical modeling, the shear behavior of the wall was represented by three inelastic properties as well as elastic. Nonlinear dynamic analyses were conducted to evaluate the performance of structural members. The result showed that the performance of shear walls in the hospital buildings was not satisfied regardless of the seismic-force-resisting systems, while the demands on the beams and columns did not exceed the capacities. This is the result of only considering the shear of the wall as the force-controlled action. When the shear of the wall was modeled as inelastic, the walls were yielded in shear, and as the result, the demands for frames were increased. However, the increase did not exceed the capacities of the frames members. Consequently, since the performance of walls is significant to determine the seismic performance of a hospital building, it will be essential to establish a definite method of modeling shear behavior of walls and judging their performance.

목적 : 본 연구는 암 환자의 특성에 따른 수단적 일상생활활동과 삶의 질 차이를 확인하고 이들의 상관관계를 확인하고 자 하였으며 암 환자가 필요로 하는 작업수행영역과 삶의 질에 영향을 미치는 요소를 확인함으로써 암 환자의 삶의 질 향상을 위하여 작업수행에 바탕을 둔 환자중심적인 작업치료의 필요성을 제언하고자 한다. 연구방법 : 암으로 진단을 받은 만 18세 이상의 입원이나 외래로 치료를 받고 있는 암 환자 33명을 대상으로 하였다. 설 문지를 통하여 대상자의 특성을 조사하였고 Frenchay Activities Index(FAI)를 이용하여 수단적 일상생활활동 정도를 측정하였으며, Canadian Occupational Performance Measure(COPM)으로 작업수행영역을 확인하고, SF-36으로 삶 의 질을 측정하였다. 대상자의 특성에 따른 수단적 일상생활활동 정도와 삶의 질은 독립표본 t-test와 ANOVA를 사용 하였고, 수단적 일상생활활동 정도와 삶의 질 간의 상관관계는 피어슨 상관관계분석(Pearson’s Correlation Efficient) 을 사용하였다. 그리고 작업수행영역에 따른 삶의 질을 확인하기 위해 기술통계와 ANOVA를 사용하였으며, 삶의 질 영향 요인은 위계적 다중회귀분석을 통해 분석하였다. 결과 : 대상자는 입원 여부에 따라서 수단적 일상생활활동 정도에 차이가 있었으며, 직업, 경제상태, 입원 여부에 따라 삶 의 질에 차이를 나타내었다. 수단적 일상생활활동 정도와 삶의 질은 정적 상관관계를 보였고, 작업수행영역 중 여가에 의의를 둔 대상자가 가장 많았으며 생산적인 활동에 응답한 대상자의 삶의 질이 가장 높았다. 삶의 질에 영향을 미치는 요소로는 수단적 일상생활활동과 경제 상태인 것으로 나타났다. 결론 : 암 환자의 수단적 일상생활활동과 삶의 질은 유의한 관계가 있으며 암 환자의 삶의 질 향상을 위하여 작업수행을 바탕으로 한 환자중심적인 작업치료의 역할이 강조된다.

This study was carried out to investigate antibiotic resistances of 181 isolates in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from 450 specimens which were a General Hospital personnel in Cheonan province. Of the 181 isolates, 89 isolates (49.2%) were methicillin resistant and 92 isolates were susceptible. They were resistant to penicillin (80.1%), clindamycin (18.8%), oxacillin (49.2%), cefepime (28.2%), cefotetan (34.3%), ampicillin (66.3%), gentamicin (27.6%), tetracycline (17.7%) and erythromycine (43.1%), also. In resistant rates of the 89 MRSA, 5 antibiotics were more than 50%, but in those of the 92 MSSA, only 1 antibiotics was. Also they showed very highly multi-drug resistance patterns to 15 antibiotics as follow : One hundred and forty five isolates(82.3%) showed antibiotic resistance to more than one kind of the 15 kinds antibiotics. In the multiple resistant patterns, one drug resistant isolates were 18 isolates (9.9%), 2 drugs 29 (16.0%), 3 drugs 21 (11.6%), 4 drugs 29 (16.0%), and more than 5 drugs were 52 isolates (28.7%). The number of more than 5 drugs resistant strains in MSSA were only 1 strain, but those in MRSA were 51 isolates (57.3%). Forty five isolates (24.9%) produced enterotoxin serotype C and all MRSA.

Despite improved working environment with increased automation in industry, the nursing professions are subject to great deal of potential occupational risks, including chemical exposure, occupational stress, and musculoskeletal stress. In this study, we investigated the work-related Low Back Pains(LBPs) among hospital nursing profession by questionnaire survey. The results showed that over 89% of nursing personnel answered had experienced work-related LBPs. Among these personnel, patient handling caused more than 78% of the incidents occurring at work. This study will thus contribute as a basic reference to the hospitals and ergonomic practitioners for nursing profession training program development, facility and equipment redesign, and for guiding future research concerning prevention of this very important occupational health problem.

경상북도에 소재한 5개 종합병원 영상의학과의 오염도를 계수하고, 오염 원인균을 배양하여 동정하고 이를 토대로 지역사회 영상의학과의 효율적인 감염관리 방안을 모색하고자 하였다.확인된 표면오염 균주는 Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, Pseudomonas stutzeri, Pseudomonas oryzihabitans로 병원감염의 원인균으로 알려진 균주였고 영상의학과의 오염원으로 특이성을 가진 균주는 없었다. 조사대상 병원은 비슷한감염관리교육을 실시하고 있었으나 병원별 오염도의 차이는 유의한 차이를 보였다. 조사대상 병원별 접촉원에 따른 오염도의 차이는 방사선사 사용, 환자사용, 공통사용으로 구분하여 분석한 결과 환자사용이 방사선사사용, 공통사용에비해 유의하게 높은 오염도를 보였다(p<0.001).병원별 월평균 검사건수의 차이가 적은 장치는 모든 병원에서 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았으나 이에 비해 촬영건수가 가장 많은 일반촬영장치, 흉부전용촬영대의 오염도가 다른 촬영장치에 비해 오염도가 높았다. 또한 월평균 촬영건수가 많은 A, B, C 병원은 방사선사가 단독으로 사용하거나 또는 환자와 공통으로 사용하는 방사선조사장치, 사무용책상, 출입문 손잡이에서 비교적 높은 오염도를 보였다.