우리나라 간호사 인력수급 전망에 관한 연구 = The Demand and Supply of Registered Nurses in Korea and Policy Recommendations

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With an recognition of increases in the older population and chronic disease patients, the Korean government has been actively promoting the expansion of long-term care facilities and the revitalization of long-term and home-care services. The successful implementation of these policies, however, necessitates an effective national workforce planning which can assure adequate training and supply of registered nurses. Therefore, this study aims to forecast the supply and demand for registered nurses through a supply and demand analysis and provide preliminary data for policy development in adjusting the supply of registered nurses.
Baseline Projection model combined with demographic method is adopted as the supply forecasting method and so is a derivative demand method called Health Resources and Services Administration`s demographic utilization-based model as the demand forecasting method. Under the most appropriate scenario for registered nurses with 255 working days per year and the number of patients per day set by current medical law, the supply and demand for active registered nurses are estimated to be 224,980 and 243,254 in 2020, respectively. Therefore, there will be an undersupply of 18,273 registered nurses in 2020. However, the seemingly supply shortage can be resolved if we succeeds in attracting available unemployed nurses into labor market since the size of the nursing shortage is just 8 percent of the total number of available registered nurses. When compared with other OECD countries with the same levels of GDP per capita, the number of registered nurses per 1,000 population in Korea is 1.8 in 2004 while the average number in other OECD countries is 7.9 at the same year, 4 times higher than that of Korea.
The demand and supply for registered nurses will be influenced by various factors such as the stabilization of differential management price policy of nurses, the implementation of medical law standards for the number of patient per nurse, the expansion of long-term care system, the introduction of public health nurses and so on. Therefore, further studies will be necessary concerning public health environmental and institutional factors which can affect the demand for registeredconcerning public health environmental and institutional factors which can affect the demand for registered nurses. In addition, the Korean government should develop policies that can better utilize available unemployed nurses and increase the entrance quota of nursing colleges.

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