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April 27-28, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
19th Global Nursing Education Conference
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Global Nursing Education 2017
April 27-28, 2017
Community health nurses' role, work contents, and nurses' learning needs assessment in Southwest China
Lin Tao, Suzhen Liu and Jiping Li
Sichuan University, China
Background: The cost of curing chronic diseases has been the present growth trend. And, improving the health promotion and
healthcare management may have achieved significant results in terms of population health maintenance. How to make the
community health nurses' role full play and establish a comprehensive education development plan had been the concern of the
Chinese Government.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate community health nurses' role, work contents, and explore the reasonable
teaching methods by knowing nurses’ learning needs.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design using self-answered questionnaires comprising demographic questions and three
scales measuring actual role, work content and teaching needs scale was used.
Results: 1,015 community health nurses in 56 CHS centers were cluster sampled. Findings showed that the community nurses
mainly undertook the roles of health educator (94.0%), health care giver (84.9%), collaborator and coordinator (78.5%), observer
(73.9%), manager and organizer (52.3%), but seldom undertook advocate role (48.4%), leadership role (27.7%) and research role
(32.3%). And, there were five most important work contents: Health education (84.4%), providing care for patient directly (71.4%),
community-based prevention (70.1%), chronic disease management (69.6%) and elderly healthcare (66.5%). This presents a problem
for community nursing education: lacking of related ability such as advocating for residents, leadership skills and scientific research
skills are perceived as the greatest need. Nurses preceptors also need to improve teaching related to maternal healthcare, child
healthcare, mental rehabilitation, family health nursing and hospice care.
Conclusions: For community health nurses in China to function perfect, making best use of interactive teaching methodologies
and encouraging nurses in community based research projects helped a lot to improve individual quality and ability. Meanwhile,
encourage nurses in family health survey and learn to do community diagnosis contributed to take good care of vulnerable groups.
Biography
Lin Tao is working in School of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Her main research direction is Community Care. She has taken part in 2
international nursing conferences, which were held in Singapore and Thailand.
Lin Tao et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:2 (Suppl)