Objective To describe the situation of citation on clinical nursing fund-sponsored theses and to reflect the academic level in this field and authors' capability to using literature.Methods The way of search combining printed journal and database was used to clinical nursing fund-sponsored theses published in 12 nursing core journals from 2015 to 2016. Statistical analysis was conducted on the numbers, languages, subject resources and types of citations.Results There were total 3590 clinical nursing fund-sponsored theses from 2015 to 2016. The citation rate was 99.78% with 14.58 per paper for the average number of citation. The languages of citations were main in Chinese accounting for 60.75%. The subject resources of citations mainly included nursing (55.36%) with clinical medicine and other subjects increasing. The types of citations of Chinese and foreign language primarily contained journals accounting for 87.33% and 96.33% respectively. Conclusions The numbers of citations and the average number of citations per paper increase year by year. The nurses' capability to absorb information grows continually. However, diversified investment funds for scientific research should be strengthened and resources sharing should be promoted in the future.

Objective To explore the effects of Orem self-care theory on the initiative and core competence of psychiatric nurses. Methods A total of 100 in-service registered nurses in the clinical department of our hospital were selected and used self-control test on them. Then we evaluated and compared their initiative and core competence respectively at the begin and the end of one year′s Orem self-care theory practice in Psychiatric Ward. Results The initial score of initiative was (23. 43+2. 25) and the score of core competence was (131. 43 ± 7. 19) before the practice of Orem self-care theory. While the score of initiative was (30. 17 ± 2. 26), the score of core competence was (150. 80 ± 6. 73) after 1 year′s the practice of Orem self-care theory (P<0. 01). Conclusions Application of Orem self-care theory in Psychiatric Ward can enhance the work initiative and give full expression to the core competence of nurses.