초등학생과 중학생의 간호사에 대한 이미지 비교 = Nurse Image Perceived by Elementary and Middle School Students

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Purpose: This study was to investigate the image of nurse perceives by students of elementary and middle schools in Seoul, Korea. Methods: The data were collected through questionnaire survey on 860 students. The survey was performed during May to Jun. 2003. The nurse image was analyzed through the instrument conceived by Il-Sim, Yang(1998) on the basis of four dimensions; traditional, social, professional and personal. The collected data analyzed using SPSS 11.0 with frequency, mean, standard deviation and t-test. Results: The results of this study were as follows. 1. There was a significant difference in the nurse`s image between elementary and middle school students(p=.000), and the elementary students had more positive image. 2. The nurse`s image of elementary school students had more positive than middle school students in traditional(p=.000), social(p=.000), professional(p=.000) and personal dimension(p= .015). In elementary school students, score of nurse`s image was the highest in personal dimension, followed by traditional, professional and social in order. In middle school students, score of nurse`s image was the highest in personal dimension, followed by professional, traditional and social in order. 3. The difference of nurse`s image not showed statistical significance in sex, religion, experience of hospitalization(self), experience of hospitalization (family), nurses in family by general characteristics. Conclusion: As a result, elementary school student had more positive nurse`s image than middle school student in all the aspects. But as they grow old, it changed negative. It is required to develop public information or education fit with student`s age to image making by broadcasting and to improve the image nurses themselves.