일 지역의 간호사 이미지 조사 연구 -교사, 방송인, 법무 및 행정 공무원 대상으로-

A Survey on Public Nurses Image at a Local City -From the Perspectives of Teacher, Broadcaster, Legal and Administrative Officers-

The purpose of this study was to investigate public nurses image from the perspectives of girl ’s high school teacher (n=53), broadcaster (n=50) ， legal officer (n=30) and administrative officer (n=27) at G city from June 20th to July 20th, 2001. The instrument for this study was the 4-point Likert scale using 30 items about nurses image developed by Jahang (1998) and the scale was divided into four areas: temperament as a nurse (Cronbach’s α=.72), role performance (Cronbach’s α =.55), community participation (Cronbach’s α=.74), interpersonal relationship (Cronbach’s α=40). The data were analyzed by percentage, t-test and ANOVA using SPSS/WIN program 10.0, and the results could be summarized as follows: 1. The most influencing factor on nurses image building was nurses working in hospital (75.5%). The average score of image was 2.66 out of 4.00 points and temperament as a nurse was 2.80, ’community participation 2.64 and role performance 2.54 points in subcategories. 2. According to the backgrounds of subjects, the scores on nurses’s image were significantly different: to career, teacher 2.78, administrative officer 2.64, broadcaster 2.58 and legal officer 2.57 points (F=5.47, p=.OOl); and to age, in the fifties was 2.84, the forties 2.75, the twenties 2.65 and the thirties 2.56 points in order (F=5.23, p=.002). And the scores on nurses image were not significantly different according to other characteristics of the subjects. Based on these results, the authors recommended as follows: 1. Follow-up study on nurses image from the perspectives of inpatients, outpatients and their families in various hospital settings and clients in other nurse-working fields. 2. Follow-up study on nurses image from the perspectives of teachers working at from kindergarten to high school; and a study to identify age-specific nurses image of the public. 3. To develop strategies for affirmative self image building of nurses as a health professional and for mass media monitoring.