Research on education status and training needs of community nurses

VernacularTitle:社区护士教育现状及培训需求调查
Author: Yu-Hua SHI ¹ ; Jing ZHOU ; Dong-Hong ZHU ; Gui-Hua XU
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1. 南京中医药大学
Keywords: Community health services; Community nurse; Post training
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2011;17(28):3415-3417
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the status and needs of community nurses' education in Changzhou,and to provide evidence for improving quality of further training.Methods Totally 402 community nurses from 72 community hospitals in Changzhou were recruited in the survey and finished the questionnaires.Results 73.1％ of community nurses continue to degree education after work,79.3％ of them have attend the post training.98.7％ of them considered post training is necessary,and only 35.6％ were willing to participate in training.Age and whether received community nursing education are the most important influence factors (OR =0.541,P =0.001 ; OR =2.430,P =0.003).In the need of knowledge and skills,there were significant differences in the age groups ( F =3.074,P =0.028).Conclusions Teaching reform is necessary.Increasing the training of young community nurses backbone is imperative and giving full play to the advantages of high qualification community nurses.