A study on the demands and status of the development of specialty nurse in 16 Tibet hospitals / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives@#To find out the demands and status in quo of the development of specialty nursing and to provide positive suggestions for the further development of specialty nursing in Tibet.@*Methods@#Self-designed questionnaire was adopted to investigate 16 different level hospitals across Tibet.@*Results@#Among the 16 hospitals in which there were altogether 1677 nursing staff and only 11 hospitals had cultivated specialty nurses with a number of 123 in total. The rate of specialty nurses allocated was 7.2%. 9 hospitals expressed the need to develop specialty nurses in nearly future and the number of specialty nurses needed was 577.@*Conclusion@#Tibet should step up the development of specialty nursing, establish and perfect the training method and management system about specialty nurses as soon as possible.