동물보건사의 평가를 위한 척도개발의 필요성에 대한 제언

A Suggestion on the Development of Scales for Assessment of Animal Nursing

South Korea's animal nursing certificate is a national certificate. The first examination was held in 2022 and 2,544 animal nurses were produced. They work at veterinary hospitals to perform various tasks while assisting veterinarians in treatment of animals. In this process, they sometimes suffer from stress accompanied by physical and mental pain due to friction with customers, conflicts with colleagues, failure to handle work due to inexperience in medical assistance, physical damage caused by companion animals, and fatigue due to overwork. However, since their job has been just made for the first time, there is no tool to assess their condition. Although there are nurses who assist doctors as a similar occupation, since they do not deal with animals, borrowing the assessment tool for them may lead to errors. Therefore, the development of professional assessment tools for animal nursing is acutely necessary. When the tools necessary for assessment of animal nursing were reviewed, it could be seen that tools for assessment of animal nurses’ “job stress, job satisfaction, job fatigue, life satisfaction, self-efficacy, turnover intention, job performance, job embeddedness, work performance, and self-esteem” are necessary. It is hoped that these assessment tools will be developed as soon as possible to improve animal nurses’ pride in their job with enhancement of their work ability, improvement of the management of animal hospitals, qualitative enhancement of patient treatment, and increases in work efficiency and efficiency based on the results of assessment of animal nursing and many studies on animal nursing.