Investigation on the status and need for geriatric nurse in community
10.3760/j.issn.1674-2907.2014.30.006
- VernacularTitle:社区老年护理人才现状及需求调查
- Author:
Lingyu CHEN
1
;
Lingzhi ZHANG
;
Lihui WU
;
Zhaoliang XIN
;
Haibo ZHAO
Author Information
1. 310053 杭州，浙江医学高等专科学校护理系
- Keywords:
Community health service;
Nursing care;
Need assessment;
Talent situation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2014;20(30):3803-3805
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To study the status and need for geriatric nursing talents in community , so as to explore the evidence for cultivating community geriatric nurse .Methods Totals of 284 community health service centers of Zhejiang province were surveyed with a self -designed questionnaire .Results Among 284 community health service centers , 72.5 percent investigators believed that the number of geriatric nurse in community can not met the need of elderly care , 67 .6 percent investigators believed that the professional quality of geriatric nurse can not met the need of elderly care .Geriatric nurses with college degree account for 44.5 percent of all the community nurses, technical secondary school level account for 39.8 percent, 61.2 percent of the nurses recruited in future years are demanded with college degree .Geriatric nursing knowledge and skill and other 11 courses should be designed to cultivate community geriatric nurse , the ability of care for elderly with common disease and drug reaction and other 8 kinds of abilities are the core ability of geriatric nurse in community . Conclusions Both the number and quality of geriatric nurse can not meet the need of elderly care now .Guiding by elderly care knowledge and core abilities , we should cultivate community geriatric nurses through setting the major of geriatric nursing , changing the courses system , the way of teaching and practice to meet the needs for the aging of population in China .
