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Improving the curriculum for a community nursing training program in Guangzhou City, China
Author(s) -
Wang Siyun,
Chen Weiju,
Du Yun
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/phn.12562
Subject(s) - curriculum , delphi method , nursing , vocational education , medicine , training (meteorology) , china , nurse education , community hospital , medical education , work (physics) , psychology , pedagogy , political science , mechanical engineering , statistics , physics , mathematics , meteorology , law , engineering
Abstract In China, community nurses do not have systematic training, and the nursing education curriculum focuses on clinical nursing both in vocational school and high school. Most nurses work at a hospital, and almost all community nurses lack systematic knowledge about community nursing. A training program for community nurses in Guangzhou City has been conducted since 2003. The training curriculum has evolved over the years, but is not standardized. This article describes research on improving community nurses’ basic knowledge and practice skills. We modified the curriculum with a questionnaire and a modified Delphi method. First, 318 participating nurses and instructors were queried in December 2012. Then 22 experts modified the training program based on the results of the questionnaire and implementation since 2013. After 4 years, we followed up with the new participating nurses to evaluate the curriculum.