Patient-Nurse Collaboration in Nursing Practice: A Korean Study

1. Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University 3. Professor, College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881 Corresponding author: Dal Sook Kim, PhD, RN, Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, 640 Moon-Hwa dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon City 301-721, Korea Tel: 82-42-580-8327 Fax: 82-42-584-8915 E-mail: [email protected] Received August 31, 2002 ; Accepted November 25, 2002 Introduction. Consumerism is prevailing value in Korean society, while there has been little concern about it especially in Korean nursing society even though there has been an increasing emphasis on patients’ participation in decisions concerning health care and nursing as an ideal in the literature.