Doctoral Nursing Education in South Korea

Introduction null null null null null null null null null null History of nursing education in Korea goes back to 1903 when Pogunyogwan (the first woman’s hospital) Nurses’ Training School began to train nurses 1 . Modern Western medicine was introduced for the first time in Korea around this time. In 1953, following the Korean War, a Technical High School was opened to train nurses with aid from the United States. Two years later the first...