The present situation of clinical holistic nursing in China

Abstract

Since from 1995, holistic nursing has over 20 years of development in China. And now as the nursing models spread to national wide, holistic nursing aim to the National Twelfth Five-year Plan. At the guidance of the National Twelfth Five-year Plan, the nursing model in China has been began to turn to holistic nursing model. But because of the influence from many factors from the implementation, the way of thinking about to carry out the nursing care using by most of the nurses in clinic is also from the illness and the medical orders. The holistic nursing philosophy and methods, for example the care program, have been not implemented well. Nurse staffing has been in the national plan. And after years of effort the situation has been improved. But it also can not fit the needs in clinic. So as the method to solve the contradiction between the staffing and the needs, the nursing schedule has began to change. The APN model and some mathematic model have been used to the innovation for the nursing schedule. The ability level of the nurses is known as the important fact on the implementation of holistic nursing. So the nurse training is in the attention. But the standardization for the training is the problem we face now. As the chief method and factor to the continual improvement for holistic nursing, quality evaluation system in our country has been improved gradually. But the scientific management methods have not well combine to the fact, and became a factor to restrict the improvement. So the necessary steps for the improvement of holistic nursing in China involve the investigation about the fact and the theory, the innovation and the standardization for the current situation, and the chinization of the theory. Key words: Review; Holistic nursing; Analysis of current situation