This study is a research that uses a scoping literature review methodology to develop nurse’s discharge educations published in Korea and analyze the trend and characteristic related research. Total 9 papers were analyzed for this study as a nurse...
This study is a research that uses a scoping literature review methodology to develop nurse’s discharge educations published in Korea and analyze the trend and characteristic related research. Total 9 papers were analyzed for this study as a nurse’s discharge education intervention or effectiveness verification paper published in domestic academic journals on the topic of discharge education for the recent 10 years (Jan. 2012 to Oct. 2021). This study identified the research questions, identified relevant studies, selected studies, charted data, collated and summarized data, reported the results, and analyzed the domestic research trends on discharge education, according to the methodological framework for scoping literature review provided by Arksey & O'Malley and the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systemic Reviews and Meta-analysis extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR).
Our study findings are as follows:
1. Total 9 papers were analyzed. The academic journal in which nurse’s discharge education related papers were contained the most is nursing science research field and chronically ill adult patients were the most.
2. All papers were the ones that were designed to identify the effect of discharge education on patients and the papers on the effect of discharge education on self care practice among patients were the most. As a result, discharge education had a positive impact on the degree of self care practice among patients.
3. All papers developed a new discharge education program, and as data for development, used the demand for education in patients who experienced hospital admission and discharge for the same disease as the patients to be educated had the most. One (1) time of training about discharge education program occurred the most and the time of education varied from the time of hospital admission to 3 weeks after discharge. There were only 2 papers that executed discharge education even after discharge. And there’s no connection with the community. The time of education varied from 12 min. to 60 min. For experiment group, lecture, among the education methods or media was used the most. In all papers, nurses participated as an education performer. There were only 2 papers in which people working in other occupations other than the nurse participated in education. All papers executed post investigation.
Given the above findings, this study identified the information presented in the precedent research papers by analyzing the characteristics of nurse’s discharge education researches and nurse’s discharge education programs. Through this, the strengths and supplementations for nurse’s discharge education could be found. One of the strengths was positive impact on patient’s self care practice by developing and intervening in the nurse’s discharge education program. In addition, the efforts to improve the quality of nurse’s discharge education by executing discharge education continuously could be seen. As supplementations, standardized discharge education programs suited to the characteristics of patients need to be developed and the connection with the community for continuous management after discharge is also needed. Therefore, the findings from this study can be utilized as basic data for providing the direction for developing effective nurse’s discharge education strategies and nurse’s discharge education programs in the future.