Investigation of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine nursing education in adult nursing curriculum

Abstract

Objective To explore the feasibility , necessity and teaching content of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine nursing education in Adult Nursing curriculum, and to provide the basis of building the content of textbook on the integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine in Adult Nursing.Methods One hundred and sixty experts , who were chief editors , deputy editors and editors and attended the meeting to compile the nursing textbook for National Traditional Chinese Medicine University in August 14-16th, 2011 in Hangzhou, were surveyed by self-designed questionnaire .Results Thinking that Chinese nurses should receive the traditional Chinese medicine nursing education accounted for 80%;Thinking that carrying out the integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine nursing in the clinical practice was necessary accounted for 93.1%;Thinking that clinical nursing course should combine with the knowledge of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine nursing accounted for 73.8%; Thinking that clinical nursing course should be integrated into the health preserving of traditional Chinese medicine and preventive health care knowledge accounted for 88.7%.Thinking that the disease kinds which fitted to combine with more than 50%of knowledge of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine nursing were 44 in the common diseases of medicine and surgery .Conclusions The content of textbook on Adult Nursing should combine with the knowledge of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine nursing , and that is feasibility and necessity . Key words: Nursing education; Integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine; Undergraduate textbook; Adult nursing