Abstract
Purpose:This study was to describe and develop public health nursing. Methods:Data were collected from 19 nurses sampled from 5 public health centers. The grounded theory of Strauss and Corbin (1990) was applied. Results:Asa result, 48 concepts, 23subcategories, and 11 categories were deducedfrom opencoding. In axial coding, casual conditions facing difficulties of practical administration and attaching importance to health support for residents and context condition assessing of residents service needs impacted phenomenon searching for efficient performingmethods. Intervening conditions formingof support system and working with positive, andaction-interaction conditions improving of resident shealthand medicalaccessibility and striving for self-development lead to consequences carried out promptly for field-based problem solving, mastered of successful program planning methods and solving the issues with existing style. The periods of process were divided into 4 stages, confirming program-contents, probing program-method, developing program-strategies, andapplyingprogram-competencies.Thecorecategory,'strengtheningof practical-planningworkcompetencies incorporated the relationship between and among all categories and explained the process. Conclusion: This study described public health nurses performance in Korea. These findings have important implications for the practice and must be considered to develop competencies for planning and practice of public health.
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