Identity of Women's Health Nursing

Lee, Kyung Hye

doi:1998.4.1.29

J Korean Acad Women Health Nurs > Volume 4(1); 1998 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Women's Health Nursing 1998;4(1):29-37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.1998.4.1.29

Identity of Women's Health Nursing

Kyung Hye Lee

Abstract

This paper describes why maternity nursing need to be extended and expanded to women's health nursing. Women's health nursing was developed and influenced by philosophical reasoning such as existentialism, feminism, and postmodernism. Also social changes accelerated to progress the maternity nursing to women's health nursing. Reproductive health is the core concept of women's health nursing as well as maternity nursing. The major content of women's health nursing includes maternity nursing area. Thus those researchers who study women's health nursing should take initiative role in multidisciplinary researches to solve health problem and improve the quality of women's life.

Key Words: Women's Health Nursing