간호사의 임상경력개발시스템에 관한 조명

A Study on the Perspectives of Clinical Career Development System for Nurses

The purpose of this study is to understand career development system for clinical advancement of nurses, so there are aimed at recognizing the importance of career development program and assisting its planning as a strategy for human resources development. In this perspectives, this study attempted to review the nature and cases of career development system and to present the appropriate introduction strategies of career development system using the clinical ladder in clinical nursing field. The career development system is a desirable one for the unification of the organization s desire that needs man-power to confront the rapid changes of health care environments effectively and personal desires for the self-development and achievements. The clinical ladder can be defined as a means of career recognition and reward for nurses who chose to remain at beside. The clinical ladder is useful to promote and support excellence in clinical nursing practice and to improve nurses job satisfaction. Clinical Nurses can advance through a series of levels based on nursing competencies within career development system using the clinical ladder, so called clinical ladder system. In order to establish this program, nursing administrators may evelop a climate for learning of nursing competency while promoting professional growth and satisfaction. Based on this viewpoint, in Korean hospital career development system must be introduced and implemented to develop, evaluate, and promote clinical nurses providing direct patient care throughout their nursing career.