Investigation and analysis of job tasks for nurses in community hospitals in southwest China
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1672-7088.2016.15.007
- VernacularTitle:西南地区四省/直辖市社区医院不同职称护士工作任务调查分析
- Author:
Yongle SHI
;
Xuemei LI
;
Jiping LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Nurses;
Professional title;
Job task;
Southwest China
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2016;32(15):1147-1151
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the nurses′tasks in community hospitals in southwest China, so as to provide references for building nursing profession advanced examination system matching with the clinical requirements of community. Methods Different Professional Titles Nurses′ Tasks Questionnaire developed by the Ministry of Health was used to investigate 201 nurses in 10 community hospitals that were randomly selected in southwest China. Results Nurse professional title with primary title mainly accounted for 59.20% (119/201),and the nurses who had received secondary and college degree accounted for 43.28%(87/201), 38.81%(78/201). 120 items of nursing tasks were divided into 8 dimensions, the highest of implementation frequency score was the dimension related with drug treatment which scored 3.05±1.18, while the lowest was related with meeting the patients′basic needs which scored 1.40 ± 1.05; the highest of tasks′ importance assess score was the task dimension related with drug treatment which scored 3.36 ± 0.56, while the lowest was the dimension of communications which scored 2.74 ± 0.81. The correlation analysis of execution frequency and importance assess of each dimension showed a significant positive correlation (r=0.161-0.397,P<0.05), except the dimension related with drug treatment(r=0.128,P>0.05). Score difference of tasks’execution frequency and importance evaluation for different Professional titles nurses had no statistical significance (P>0.05). Conclusions The reform of the nurses′career advanced examination should be combined with development status and nurses′tasks in community, in addition, both raising the nurses′ comprehensive quality and improving job responsibilities and functions division of community is the basis of the reform.
