Application of revised nursing work index to hospital nurses of South Korea

Chul-Woung Kim; Sang-Yi Lee; Jeong-Hee Kang; Bo-Hyun Park; Sang-Chul Park; Hyeung-Keun Park; Keon-Hyung Lee; Yun-Jeong Yi; Baek-Geun Jeong

doi:10.1016/j.anr.2013.07.003

Application of revised nursing work index to hospital nurses of South Korea

Asian Nurs Res (Korean Soc Nurs Sci). 2013 Sep;7(3):128-35. doi: 10.1016/j.anr.2013.07.003. Epub 2013 Jul 20.

Authors

Chul-Woung Kim¹, Sang-Yi Lee², Jeong-Hee Kang³, Bo-Hyun Park⁴, Sang-Chul Park⁵, Hyeung-Keun Park⁶, Keon-Hyung Lee⁷, Yun-Jeong Yi⁸, Baek-Geun Jeong⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea. Electronic address: health21@jejunu.ac.kr.
³ Department of Public Health, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
⁴ Department of Nursing, Kimcheon Science College, Gimcheon, South Korea.
⁵ The Department of Future Strategy for Government, The Korea Institute of Public Administration, Seoul, South Korea.
⁶ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea.
⁷ Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
⁸ Department of Nursing Science, College of Nursing, Gachon University, Incheon, South Korea.
⁹ Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea.

PMID: 25030250
DOI: 10.1016/j.anr.2013.07.003

Abstract

Purpose: Based on the Revised Nursing Work Index (NWI-R), this research aimed to develop a Korean Hospital General Inpatient Unit-Nursing Work Index (KGU-NWI). This study also aimed to compare the common points and differences between the subfactors of the KGU-NWI and the subfactors from previous studies.

Methods: Based on opinions from 3,151 nurses in Korean hospital general inpatient unit, this research used 57 items of NWI-R and the principal axis factor analysis for deriving subfactors. We evaluated the convergent validity through factor analysis and the content validity of KGU-NWI in terms of the association between nurses' job outcome and the subfactors derived.

Results: Six subfactors and 26 items for KGU-NWI were derived from NWI-R. Among them, 'physician-nurse relationship', 'adequate nurse staffing' and 'organizational support and management of hospital' were the same with results from previous studies. In addition, two subfactors, 'participation of decision-making processes' and 'education for improving quality of care', which were similar with results from previous Korean studies, were newly added by using Korean hospital cases. In contrast to previous Korean studies, a unique subfactor this study found was 'nursing processes'. This research confirmed that the six subfactors were highly correlated with job satisfaction, intention to leave, and quality of health care, which represented a nurse's job outcome.

Conclusion: KGU-NWI including six subfactors and 26 items is an applicable instrument to investigate nurse work environment in Korean hospital general inpatient unit.

Keywords: factor analysis; job satisfaction; professional practice; quality of health care.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't