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Purpose:This study aimed at characterizing Korean nurses’ occupational responsibilities to apply the results for improvement of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination.Methods:First, the contents of nursing job were defined based on a focus group interview of 15 nurses. Developing a Curriculum (DACOM) method was used to examine those results and produce the questionnaire by 13 experts. After that, the questionnaire survey to 5,065 hospital nurses was done.Results:The occupational responsibilities of nurses were characterized as involving 8 duties, 49 tasks, and 303 task elements. Those 8 duties are nursing management and professional development, safety and infection control, the management of potential risk factors, basic nursing and caring, the maintenance of physiological integrity, medication and parenteral treatments, socio-psychological integrity, and the maintenance and improvement of health.Conclusion:The content of Korean Nursing Licensing Examination should be improved based on 8 duties and 49 tasks of the occupational responsibilities of Korean nurses.

Purpose: This study was designed to provide qualitative data to explore the nurses' experience of caring for elders who are dying. Methods: Data were collected from ten nurses who had experiences in nursing elders who were dying and receiving care in long term care facilities in Korea. Analysis of data was done by conventional content analysis. Results: In this study, 8 essential themes were extracted; 'beginning of dying with uncertainty', 'approaching death in daily life', 'effort for medical intervention', 'arranging the last meeting with significant others', 'becoming elder's family member inside who shared elder's life', 'rumination about the situation of elders' dying and accumulated experience, 'empirical understanding and coping with human death', 'results depends on nurses'role' Conclusion: The results of the study suggest that nursing care manuals and prediction tools regarding end-of-life care for elders need to be developed and preparation of advance directives for elders in the long-term care settings should be required.

Ego-integrity is a concept having needs that should be treated in a specific way and it is possible to enrich the meaning and methods to manage ego-integrity in nursing interventions for promoting quality of life so that its application may have effects that have positive impacts on the elderly's well being.

Purpose:This study aimed at identifying if there is a relevance of content of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination (KNLE) revised in 2014 to nursing job. It will be able to provide the validity of revised content of the KNLE.Methods:From October 13 to November 13, 2015, print version of 8 duties with 49-tasks, 155-job item questionnaires were distributed to 1,305 hospital nurses and 202 nursing faculties in Korea. Results were treated by descriptive statistics and comparison analysis. There were responses from 946 nurses or professors (72.5%).Results:The relevance of test content of KNLE to nursing job was shown to be valid with over 3 points out of 4 point Likert scale in all items: from 3.23 at lowest to 3.64 at top.Conclusion:Above results showed that the revised version of KNLE in 2014 was valid to test the nursing students’ knowledge for job performance.