Park H A, Park J H
College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Korea.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;46:508-11.
Korean health care agencies are trying to find ways to survive amid strong competition within the health care industry and pressure to open health care market from abroad. One way to survive is to improve health care quality at present or reduced expenditure. Nursing is the largest manpower in health care agencies and plays an important role in determining quality of care through direct interaction with patients., thus, nursing manpower management is an essential part of survival strategies. If the nursing department can adapt to dynamic changes in the health care environment in terms of quality and quantity of service needed, health care agencies' quality and efficient management will be achieved at the same time. A computerized prototype patient classification and nursing staffing system was developed using Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0. This system allows a user to use GUI(Graphic User Interface) with an icon and a mouse. By applying this computerized system to clinical practice, nursing managers will receive accurate information regarding nursing manpower management at nursing unit level as well as departmental levels. Then nursing managers can achieve effective nursing manpower management, which will improve nursing care by allocating more nursing staff time to direct patient care.
韩国医疗保健机构正在努力寻找在医疗保健行业内部激烈竞争以及来自国外开放医疗保健市场压力下生存的方法。生存的一种方式是目前提高医疗保健质量或减少开支。护理是医疗保健机构中最大的人力群体，通过与患者的直接互动在确定护理质量方面发挥着重要作用。因此，护理人力管理是生存策略的重要组成部分。如果护理部门能够在所需服务的质量和数量方面适应医疗保健环境的动态变化，将同时实现医疗保健机构的优质高效管理。使用微软Visual Basic 3.0开发了一个计算机化的原型患者分类和护理人员配置系统。该系统允许用户通过图标和鼠标使用图形用户界面（GUI）。通过将这个计算机化系统应用于临床实践，护理管理人员将获得有关护理单元层面以及部门层面护理人力管理的准确信息。然后护理管理人员可以实现有效的护理人力管理，这将通过分配更多护理人员时间用于直接患者护理来改善护理服务。
