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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to define and clarify the concept of political competence for nurses. Methods: A hybrid model method was used to investigate the dimensions, attributes, and definitions of the concept. In the theoretical stage of the study, literature on nursing, politics, and other discipline were reviewed. In the fieldwork stage, individual in-depth interviews and focus groups interviews were conducted with politically seasoned experts or activists who had an understanding of the concept of political competence for extensive descriptions in nursing and field of health care. Results: The concept of political competence was represented in four dimensions as political knowledge, political efficacy, political interaction, and political activity. In the political knowledge dimension, there were three attributes, namely, political knowledge, political information and systematic analysis ability. The political efficacy dimension had three attributes of internal political efficacy, external political efficacy, and self-pride of nursing profession. The political interaction dimension had three attributes of organizations and community service, networking, and persuasive power. The political activity dimension had six attributes of political leadership, political expression, assertive behavior, political advocacy, political participation, and policy intervention. Conclusion: This concept development might provide a basic understanding of developing a measurement tool and for constructing a theory promoting nurses�� political competence. ; open

Korean economic development has proceeded at the rapid rate of in the past two decades with neglect to some areas of human development, especially in the case of mental illness. But the government has belatedly recognized the importance and urgency of welfare and health programmes to cope with increasing problems. Mental health problems are more serious among the economically underprivileged than others. Because of large portion of mental patients from the economically underprivileged segment are at the without proper treatment or care. Thus it is imperative to develop easily assessible, cost-effective alternatives that would offer effective mental health care as well as useful social rehabilitation programmes. The government enacted the National Mental Health Law in December 1995. This project will assist to clarify the appropriate roles of the most effective care system. 20 nurse practitioners began a study on voluntary basis to assess the patients and their family with assessment tool which developed by research members. After that managed the 46 patients and their families through telephone or home-visiting, day care center programmes(such as social skill training, group therapy, movement therapy, art therapy) and counselling, refering hospital and family support group. The goals of research is to strengthen the capacity of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners to undertake home and community-based mental health care services through various training programmes and expected outcome is this programme will be developed continuously and implemented to another community mental health center. Lastly, the cost-effective study of community-based mental health care will have been undertaken with realistic data provided by the pilot programme policy recommendations prepared for the Ministry of Health and Welfare. ; open

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Readmission which reflects capacity to manage patients and general level of medical services has been known for one of the causes of medical expenditure due to inefficient service. Compared to disease-specific readmission, hospital wide readmission (HWR) is relatively easy to understand, and has merit to get over limitation of collateral medical services assessment; therefore, a growing interest in development and usage of readmission indicator as quality of care indicator focusing on all-disease is detected. In this study, we investigate current state of risk standardized readmission rate indicator used in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and examine the considerations when using readmission rate as quality indicator in Korea. Differences in risk-adjustment methods were showed among countries. The United States do not control race not to hide socio-demographic factors on readmission. Canada shows differentiation compared to other countries about reflecting community factors. All three-countries utilize readmission rate as monitoring quality of care rather than incentives or penalty due to the fact that readmission rate could not represent the whole quality of hospital and has a limitation at controlling socio-economic factors. Therefore, for usage readmission rate as quality indicator in Korea, preparing readmission classification standard for Korean medical environment and additional methods for acquiring information by using discharge summary is need. Moreover, continued discussion with clinical specialists is needed for obtain clinical reliability and validity. ; open