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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,P0.05). 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.
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Obejective To analyze the related papers on nursing competency in China from 2004 to2014,and to learn the current status and developing trends of nursing competency,so as to provide reference for further research and development of nursing competency.Methods All literature related to nursing competency from 2004 to 2014 were searched in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals (VIP),and Wanfang database.Bibliometric analysis methods were used to analyze the distribution time,area,journal distribution and research categories by using Microsoft Excel.Results Totally 199 articles related to nursing competency were collected and the number of publications increased in recent years.About 78.89％ (157/199) papers were published in the statistical source journal and 34.17％ (68/199) papers were focused on survey research about nursing competency.Conclusions Nursing competency have been paid more attention to,but the quality of the literature still need to be improved.