Perspectives on the 21 century Korean Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Lee, So Woo

doi:2001.10.1.5

J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs > Volume 10(1); 2001 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2001;10(1):5-11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2001.10.1.5 Published online March 31, 2001.

Perspectives on the 21 century Korean Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

So Woo Lee

Perspectives on the 21 century Korean Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Abstract

The decade of the 2000 will require the psychiatric nursing to make a strong committment to the measurement of the quality of nursing care. Psychiatric nursing's future as a profession may depend upon the ability to demonstrate professional nursing's value to society. This will mean that nursing education and service must work together to address the issue by educating those nurses who have knowledge and skill to design comprehensive nature of quality nursing care faced by the nurses in the psychiatric care field. For this goal, we should redesign the contents of psychiatric nursing care in education programs from traditional inpatient-oriented nursing to variety setting-oriented nursing. In addition, a greater number of prepared psychiatric nurses as a specialist are now available with care skill both in ward and community. However, the most important thing is that they will have the ability to use their knowledge and skill in appropriate settings.

Key Words: Korean Mental Health Nursing; 21c Psychiatric and Mental Health