Medico-Legal Update

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Types of Subjectivity for Images of Nurses in Small and Medium-Sized Hospitals

1Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Namseoul University, South Korea

*Corresponding Author: Young-hee Han, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Namseoul University, Korea. Email: labri25@nsu.ac.kr

Online published on 24 April, 2019.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for improving the desirable nursing image by identifying subjectivity of the nursing image of Korean small and medium-sized hospitals.

Final 57 Q-sample constructed of 267 Q-populations. P-sample collected by convenience sampling of 36 nurse in Korean hospitals. P-sample collection was from August 25, to 2017 September 15. Data analysis of the principal component factor analysis method based on PC-QUANL use

Results of this study among the small-medium sized hospital's nurses, three types of attitudes toward nursing images were identified: Type 1 (Caring provider with a mission); Type 2 (Professional health manager); and Type 3 (Responsible medical profession).

The results of this study can be helpful in understanding the nursing image and this can be used as basic data for the establishment of desirable nursing image.

Keywords

Q-methodological, Nursing-image, small and medium-sized hospital, Subjectivity, Type