[Estimating the cost of visiting nursing service by visiting nursing model for urban public health center in Korea].
OBJECTIVE
This study focused on analysing costs per visiting nursing care based on nursing activities in a public health center.


METHODS
The Easley-Storfjell Instrument(1997) was used for a prospective descriptive analysis of self-records for workload data from 10 visiting nurses during 4 weeks on all nursing activities. In addition, analysis of the 478 visiting nursing records and cost data from 5 home visiting departments in public health centers during one year of 2003 was done.


RESULTS
The workload of visiting nurses by the type of model was identified as follows: Type I showed that caseloads made up 32.9 % of all nurse activities, and type II showed that the caseloads made up 45.8 %. Second, The cost per visit in type I was 33,088 won and 31,323 won in type II. Third, the estimated budgets were 1,902,436 won to 12,057,696 won for the type I model. and 4,151,316 won to 17,432,712 won for the type II model for one year.


CONCLUSIONS
This study's results will contribute to baseline data used to establish on infrastructure for visiting nursing program and visiting nursing agencies based on the budget of visiting nursing services.
Ryu
Ho-Sihn
HS
College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul 136-705, Korea. hosihn@korea.ac.kr
D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000191:economics*