Current state of community nurse training in Jilin province and its development orientation

VernacularTitle:吉林省社区护士岗位培训现状及发展方向
Author: Xiao-Nan ZHOU ¹ ; Chun-Yu LI ; Chun-Chang LI ; Yu-Hui GAO ; Ping SHANG ; Cai-Fu LI ; Ren-Shang CUI
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1. 延边大学
Keywords: Human resources; Post training; Community nurse; Community nursing
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2011;17(10):1117-1120
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To understand the current state of community nurses in Jilin Province and its nursing training so as to provide basis for constructing community nursing training system. Methods 583 community nurses from community health care service centers (stations) in three cities of Jilin Province were investigated with cluster random sampling method to acquire their proficiency level of community nursing knowledge and its demand. Results Common basic nursing knowledge was best mastered by community nurses (63.8%), while knowledge about scientific research was worst mastered (13.6%). Community nurses who were young, in low positions, with work experience for 5 to 9 years, mastered the knowledge worse, 42.9% of them did not attend training. The commonest training problem was that the training period was too short (64.6%); the highest demand was common diseases training for the elderly. Conclusions Nursing training is an important way to improve overall quality of community nurses in the light of unbalance status of their quality in our province and training not being put into place.