Nursing Talents Research Articles

Application effect of the online and offline mixed education mode in nursing practice based on the SMCR communication model.

To explore the application effect of the online and offline mixed teaching mode in nursing practice teaching based on the Source Message Channel Receiver (SMCR) communication model. By using the convenience sampling method, 15 nursing students who practiced their internship in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University for 4 weeks, from 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2023, were selected as the experimental group. A total of 16 nursing students who practiced in the same hospital in 2021 were selected as the control group. The control group used traditional teaching mode for teaching, and the experimental group used the online and offline teaching mode for teaching. The theoretical and practical achievements, competency, and teaching satisfaction of the two groups of nursing students were compared and analyzed after the internship. The theoretical knowledge, operational performance, competence of the nurses, and satisfaction with the teaching in the experimental group were higher than those of the control group (P < 0.05). Based on the SMCR communication model, exploring the online and offline mixed teaching mode plays an important role in the teaching process of nursing practice, which can not only effectively improve the comprehensive performance of nursing students but also help to improve their satisfaction with teaching and has a positive impact on the cultivation of high-quality nursing talents.

Evaluating the Accelerated BSN Program at the University of Washington and Its Potential for Implementation in China.

Nurses are the largest group in the health care system. The current care shortage remains a global challenge in the healthcare system.The accelerated second-degree nursing (ABSN) program was first proposed by the University of St.Louis in 1971 and then vigorously developed in the United States. Its purpose is to train more nursing talents to solve the medical needs of the poor in the United States. In the past few decades, this project has been carried out by many countries around the world to solve their domestic nursing problems.As a strategy to address severe care shortages, ABSN is continuing to increase rapidly.China as the world's second most populous country, coupled with aging year by year, the demand for nursing talents, and the ABSN project just gave China effective inspiration.Therefore, this article introduces the basic design of the bachelor's degree in nursing at the University of Washington, summarizes the characteristics of the training model, and draws on experience from the basic situation, training objectives, courses and evaluation methods. It is urgent to provide guidance and reference for the acceleration of nursing education in China.

Factors influencing the job embeddedness of new graduate nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

AbstractAimTo identify factors associated with job embeddedness from the perspective of retaining new graduate nurses.DesignThe study was cross‐sectional in design.MethodsConvenience and stratified sampling were used to recruit 415 newly graduated nurses from 12 tertiary hospitals in China. Anonymized data were collected through self‐designed sociodemographic questionnaires, job embeddedness scale, feedback‐seeking behaviour scale, authentic leadership perception scale and decent work scale. Appropriate indicators were used for descriptive statistics and t‐tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression to examine the influencing factors.ResultsThe study showed that monthly income level, decent labour, authentic leadership and feedback‐seeking behaviour were significant predictors of job embeddedness among new graduate nurses.ConclusionThe job embeddedness of new graduate nurses is moderate. Nursing managers need to construct reasonable and fair compensation incentives, adopt positive leadership styles and encourage proactive feedback‐seeking behaviours to improve the job embeddedness of new graduate nurses and alleviate the nursing talent shortage.ImpactExploring the factors influencing the job embeddedness of new graduate nurses provides a reference for establishing new graduate nurse retention strategies to help promote the career development of new graduate nurses and alleviate the nursing brain drain.Reporting MethodWe adhered to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines.Patient or Public ContributionNo patient or public contribution.

The Experience of Non-Full-Time Nursing Graduate Students in China: A Qualitative Study

To address the disconnection between the educational structure of nursing teams and the rapid development of China's medical and health industry, there is a shortage of highly educated nursing personnel. In 2016, Chinese universities introduced a new training model for nursing graduate students: non-full-time nursing graduate students. Due to its late development, this model needs continuous improvement. Understanding the training experience of non-full-time nursing graduate students is crucial for refining the training model. This study explores the experiences of non-full-time nursing graduate students and provides a basis for improving their training in China. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 non-full-time nursing graduate students. Data were collated and analyzed using Colaizzi's method. The analysis identified five themes related to the study experiences of non-full-time nursing graduate students: (1) maladaptation to diversified roles; (2) weak scientific research foundation; (3) lack of high-level guidance in clinical practice; (4) concern about social recognition; and (5) lack of educational and training resources. Competent government and training units should fully understand the experiences of non-full-time nursing graduate students and improve their training model from the students' perspective to promote the development of high-quality nursing talents. This will ultimately benefit employers, training units, individuals, and patients.

Design and practice of blended teaching of internal medicine nursing based on O-AMAS effective teaching model

BackgroundSelf-directed learning (SDL) ability is the basis for cultivating nursing students’ ability to find and solve problems, lifelong learning, and providing high-quality nursing talents for healthcare. The O-AMAS (Objective, Activation, Multi-learning, Assessment, Summary) model adheres to the teaching philosophy of student-centered, result-oriented, combines the advantages of online and offline teaching, enriching teaching resources and learning channels, diversifying teaching and evaluation methods, and emphasizing integrating and applying knowledge conducive to improving students’ SDL ability and achieving teaching objectives. This study explored the course design, practical, and application effects under the O-AMAS effective teaching model in internal medicine nursing to provide a basis and reference for combining effective teaching models with blended teaching in future nursing courses.MethodsThis study is a self-controlled before-after trial. The participants were 76 nursing undergraduates from Hunan Normal University. This study utilizes the O-AMAS effective teaching model to design internal medicine nursing courses and implement blended online and offline teaching. Main links: The overall course design and application are student-centered, after clarifying macro and micro multi-dimensional learning objectives, with online and offline blended teaching environments activated students’ learning behavior and diversified teachers’ teaching activities, then based on instant and dynamic provide effective feedback; finally, students take the initiate to make a brief and potent summary under the teacher guidance. After the course, a unified assessment of the learning effect of nursing students was conducted, including the evaluation of the SDL ability of nursing students, a final comprehensive evaluation grade, and a teaching satisfaction survey.ResultsThe nursing students’ SDL ability scores are higher than before teaching, and the results were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The final average comprehensive evaluation grade of nursing students was 78.38 ± 7.12. More than 96% of the students are satisfied with this course.ConclusionApplying for internal medicine nursing blended teaching integrated with the O-AMAS effective teaching model is conducive to improving nursing students’ SDL ability, academic grades, and teaching satisfaction.

Analysis of The Use of Implicit Nursing Knowledge in The Teaching of Cardiovascular Internal Medicine Nursing

Objective: To explore the utilization of implicit nursing knowledge in the teaching of cardiovascular internal medicine nursing and to provide a reference for improving the quality and efficiency of cardiovascular internal medicine nursing work. Methods: Thirty-six trainee nurses working in the cardiovascular internal medicine department of our hospital from September 2022 to September 2023 were selected and randomly divided into a control group and an observation group of 18 trainees each. The control adopted the traditional teaching methods while the observation group adopted the implicit nursing knowledge in their clinical practice work. The assessment scores and teamwork ability of the two groups were analyzed and compared. Results: The performance of the observation group was better than that of the control group, and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P &lt; 0.05). The teamwork ability of the observation group was significantly better than that of the control group in teamwork ability (P &lt; 0.05). Conclusion: Implicit nursing knowledge teaching is conducive to the cultivation of high-quality nursing talents and meets the development needs of hospitals. Therefore, the importance of implicit nursing knowledge should be strengthened in the teaching of cardiovascular internal medicine nursing and it should be comprehensively organized to improve the quality of nursing services.

Nursing students’ motivation for choosing a career in geriatric nursing: A cross-sectional study

ABSTRACT With the world’s population aging, geriatric care is more important than ever before. However, many studies have shown that nursing students are less likely to choose geriatric nursing as career than other nursing fields. Nursing students play a vital role in the development of geriatric nursing. Thus, this study aimed to explore the current situation of nursing students’ career choice motivation in geriatric nursing and to analyze the influencing factors. A cross-sectional survey was conducted. This study was performed from March 2021 to September 2022 among nursing students from four universities in Shandong Province, China. Data on nursing students’ attitudes toward geriatric, aging anxiety, knowledge about aging, and career choice motivation were collected through questionnaires, and analyzed by ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple linear regression. A total of 1007 questionnaires were collected. Nursing students’ career expectancy score for geriatric nursing was 19.06 ± 4.00 and the value score was 46.65 ± 7.50. The study revealed that gender, education level, taking geriatric care courses, experience in caring for older adults, believing in bright prospects for geriatric care, geriatric attitudes, and aging anxiety were critical factors that influenced nursing students’ motivation in choosing a career in geriatric nursing. Nursing students’ motivation to choose a career in geriatric care needs to be improved in China. Nursing educators should take interventions to actively guide students and promote the cultivation of geriatric nursing talent.

Status and related factors of professional growth among young nursing talents: a cross-sectional study in China

BackgroundThe shortage of nurses has been a global human resources problem. A good professional growth environment is essential to developing potential nursing students and attracting nurses to join, and it has great significance in reducing nurse turnover. However, nurses’ comprehensive perceptions of professional growth have not yet been examined.MethodsA cluster sampling method was used to conduct a professional growth questionnaire survey on young nursing talents from a large Chinese public tertiary A hospital in March 2022.ResultsThe score of professional growth among 243 young nursing talents was 57.92 ± 9.607, with a scoring rate of 77.23%. The scores for dimensions of professional growth, from lowest to highest, were rehabilitation growth, promotion speed, professional goal progress, and professional ability development. Attitudes towards participating in training, service as the quality manager or clinical teacher, self-efficacy, professional title, work-family support, education, and organizational commitment of young nursing talents were significantly associated with professional growth.ConclusionThe professional growth of young nursing talents was at a moderate level and needed to be strengthened. Nursing leaders and managers are expected to develop management practices to enhance young nursing talents’ professional growth in combination with the related factors.

Development of the core competency-based entrustable professional activities for Master of Nursing Specialist (MNS) graduates in China

Background Advanced nursing practice and education with a Master’s degree as the necessary preparation, is viewed as a major strategy to cultivate senior nursing talents. Competencies are central to advanced nursing practice and education, but how can competencies be measured? Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) have been used widely in medicine as a practical approach for bridging the gaps between competency and clinical practice. Considering the paucity of research in EPAs for nursing graduates in China, it is needed to develop EPAs specifically for Chinese Master of Nursing Specialist (MNS) graduates to improve patient safety and quality patient care. Objectives To develop and evaluate a core competency-based EPAs framework for Chinese MNS graduates. Methods A four-stage approach was adopted for the EPAs development, including: (1) forming a research team, (2) drafting an initial EPAs framework, (3) reviewing EPAs framework, and (4) conducting EPAs consensus assessment. Results A framework containing twelve EPAs was developed, including: 1) perform health assessments, 2) identify and prioritize nursing diagnoses, 3) formulate and implement care plan, 4) perform basic and specialized care operations, 5) recognize and manage medication needs of patients, 6) assess and manage patients with mental health problems, 7) recognize and assist in rescuing critically ill patients, 8) perform transition and handover, 9) participate in multidisciplinary team collaborative care, 10) provide health education and nursing consultation, 11) formulate and implement discharge plans, and 12) instruct nursing students in a clinical setting. The I-CVI score for the two rounds of Delphi ranged from 0.92 ∼ 1.00 and 0.96 ∼ 1.00, respectively. The mean of Equal’s score for the three domains ranged from 4.20 ∼ 4.47, 4.25 ∼ 4.51, and 4.23 ∼ 4.37, respectively. Conclusion The developed EPAs framework in this study is a reliable tool to assess the core competencies of Chinese MNS graduates in clinical practice and assist with their curricula design.

The Application of Flipped Classroom Teaching Model in Nursing Teaching

How to cultivate students' innovative thinking, develop their ability to analyze and solve problems, and become high-quality practical nursing talents with solid theoretical knowledge and strong practicality is the focus of nursing teaching. With the continuous progress of education reform in our country, educational informatization has attracted more and more attention. With the rapid development of multimedia technology, the flipped classroom teaching model supported by information technology has gradually attracted people's attention. This article elaborates on the concept of flipped classroom, analyzes the advantages of flipped classroom teaching mode in nursing education, and explores the application of flipped classroom teaching mode in nursing teaching, in order to better use flipped classroom to promote innovative development in nursing education and promote the cultivation of nursing talents.

Teaching Reform of “Nursing of Traditional Chinese Medicine” Course Based on OBE Concept

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) nursing is one of the important disciplines in TCM. It is based on TCM theory and combined with modern nursing theory and technology, aiming to provide comprehensive and individualized nursing services. With the changes in the medical environment and the continuous improvement of people’s health needs, the teaching of TCM nursing is facing new challenges and opportunities. This paper aims to discuss the teaching reform of TCM nursing course based on the concept of outcome-based education (OBE) or student-centered teaching. The significance of this study is to provide theoretical basis and practical guidance for the teaching reform of TCM nursing course, and to promote the development and progress of TCM nursing education. Through the teaching reform based on OBE concept, we can better cultivate TCM nursing talents with innovative spirit and practical skills, and contribute to the development of TCM.

Narrative Education Combined With Experiential Teaching in the Development of Empathic Competence of Undergraduate Nursing Students: Pre-Test Post-Test Design

Empathy is a fundamental quality that nursing staff should possess, but the empathy ability of nursing students in China is currently at an intermediate level and requires improvement. This study aimed to explore teaching methods for nursing humanistic education, that can improve the empathy ability of nursing students and cultivate high-quality nursing talents. This study employed narrative education and experiential teaching methods to develop empathic competence in teaching pediatric nursing courses. The empathic ability of nursing students was measured using the JSPE-NS scale before and after teaching and was analyzed to refine the teaching reflection theme words. After teaching, nursing students scored higher on the total empathy scale, perspective-taking dimension, and emotional care dimension than before teaching, with statistically significant differences ( p &lt; 0.05). Five themes were extracted from the teaching reflection, including emotional empathy, pediatric nursing skills, gratitude to parents, reverence for life, and course experience. The results show that the combination of narrative education and experiential teaching methods applied to pediatric nursing courses effectively improved nursing students’ empathy, strengthened their identification with the nursing profession, and promoted the teaching reform of humanistic education in nursing courses. The combination of narrative education and experiential teaching methods can improve the empathic ability of nursing students. This approach is suitable for integrating humanistic education into nursing professional courses and provides a feasible idea for developing humanistic qualities in nurses.

Application Effect of Four-Subjects and Four-Dimensions Evaluation System in the Classroom Teaching of Geriatric Nursing

Geriatric nursing is the main course for cultivating elderly nursing talents. The teaching quality of geriatric nursing is the key element of training elderly nursing talents. Therefore, it is of great significance to improve the classroom teaching quality of geriatric nursing. The purpose of this study is to construct a four-subject and four-dimension evaluation system and explore its application effect in geriatric nursing teaching. From February 2022 to July 2022, an experimental study was conducted on 185 sophomore nursing students from Zaozhuang Vocational College. The experimental group adopted the four-subject and four-dimension evaluation system, while the control group adopted the summative evaluation method. The study found that the scores of the experimental group were higher than those of the control group (P&lt;0.05). In addition, the academic evaluation of the experimental group was significantly improved (P&lt;0.05). The results show that the application of four subjects and four dimensions evaluation system in geriatric nursing teaching is conducive to improving students' learning effect and comprehensive ability.

Construction and Exploration of Model for Training Excellent Nursing Professionals

The cultivation of excellent nursing professionals is an important guarantee of competent human resources essential to the implementation of the national strategy of Healthy China initiative. In the face of the health needs of the whole life cycle and the nursing development driven by emerging technologies, the training of excellence nursing professionals is confronted with new requirements and challenges. In order to cope with the new demands at home and abroad for the training of high-quality nursing staffs, meet the needs for health services that are based on precision, the whole population, the whole life cycle, and individualized care in the new era, and cultivate outstanding nursing staffs with clinical critical thinking skills, nursing decision-making skills, innovative research and practice ability, whole life cycle nursing knowledge and skills, and the ability to keep pace with the times, we wrote this paper to help clarify the needs and challenges of training excellent nursing staffs in China. Herein, taking "precision nursing of health and disease in the whole life cycle" as the core and utilizing the personnel training principle of emphasizing foundation, strengthening ability, improving quality, and promoting personality, we elaborated on the construction of the training model of excellent nursing staffs and suggested that efforts should be made in the following areas, setting up training objectives with a scientific orientation, setting up in a targeted way the knowledge system and the curriculum system, organizing the teaching mode reform into different types and implement them accordingly, making innovations in instructional methodology, and building up high-level teaching faculties. We explored for a path for training excellent nursing talents, a path that has Chinese characteristics and that can be further developed in a sustainable way, which will lay the foundation for attaining the strategic goal of Healthy China initiative.

The mediating effect of clinical teaching behavior on transition shock and career identity among new nurses: A cross-sectional study

BackgroundNew nurse attrition is a worldwide problem. Because of the gap between theory and practice in their work, new nurses may experience transition shock, which can have a negative impact on their career identity. Clinical teaching behavior is an important component in reducing the impact of new nurse transition, stabilizing the hospital nursing workforce, and cultivating high-quality nursing talents. ObjectivesBased on the New Nurse Transition Model, to explore the mediating role of clinical teaching behavior in the relationship between transition shock and career identity in the new nurse population of Gansu Province. DesignA cross-sectional study. SettingSeventeen hospitals in Gansu province of China. ParticipantsA total of 1684 new nurses (1590 female and 94 male) were recruited from seventeen hospitals in Gansu province. MethodsThree questionnaires include: The Clinical Teaching Behavior Inventory (CTBI-23), the Transition shock of Newly Graduated Nurses Scale (TSNGNS), and the Nurse's Career Identity Scale (NCIS). Structural equation modeling was used to deal with the relationships among clinical teaching behavior, transition shock, and career identity. ResultsTransition shock was found to be negatively related to both career identity and clinical teaching behavior, with clinical teaching behavior mediates the relationship between transition shock and career identity. ConclusionsThe clinical teaching behavior of the teaching staff plays a role in mediating the relationship between new nurses' sense of career identity and transition shock. Accordingly, the teaching behavior of clinical teaching should be improved and the quality of clinical teaching behavior should be improved to increase the career identity of new nurses and reduce the turnover rate of new nurses.

Analysis of hot spots and frontiers of nursing scenario simulation teaching research at home and abroad.

To analyze the research hotspots and trends of nursing scenario simulation teaching at home and abroad, and to provide reference for future nursing talent education. CNKI and Web of Science databases were searched. From the establishment of the database to April 2022, relevant literature on nursing scenario simulation teaching research at home and abroad was retrieved, and Cite Space software was used for visual analysis. The research focus on China was the application and application effect of nursing scenario simulation teaching. The research hotspots abroad are the quality evaluation, reliability and influence of nursing scenario simulation teaching. The research and development of nursing scenario simulation teaching gradually tend to be systematic.

Cross-disciplinary training of nursing informatics and nursing engineering at the postgraduate level: A feasibility analysis based on the qualitative method

BackgroundThe trend of interdisciplinary education is becoming increasingly prominent. Nursing informatics and nursing engineering have received much attention and development at different levels of nursing education in many Western countries. Meanwhile, in China, the cultivation of interdisciplinary nursing talents has either not been initiated or has only entered an initial stage. ObjectivesThis study aims to explore experts' opinions from nursing, informatics and engineering on the feasibility of interdisciplinary education at graduate master's level in nursing through interview. DesignThis was a descriptive qualitative study. SettingInterviews were conducted online or face to face. ParticipantsExperts in the fields of nursing, informatics, and engineering who met the study qualifications were enrolled. MethodsThis study used a purposive sampling method and collected data via semi-structured interviews. A total of 14 experts were involved based on data saturation, which eight were interviewed face-to-face and six were interviewed online. A content analysis method was used to summarize and analyze the attitudes, opinions, and suggestions of experts. ResultsA total of 579 min of interviews with 66,387 words were transcribed and analyzed after 30–50 min time range of each interview, and 4 themes were established. A consensus was obtained on the necessity and importance of interdisciplinary education. Policy guidance, financial support, and mutual recognition were the prerequisites for the cultivation. Moreover, feasibility of interdisciplinary education depends on multi-cooperation, including society, university, and hospital. Finally, a linkage mechanism among relevant stakeholders was required. ConclusionThe necessity and feasibility of such integrated training was concluded.Learning from the experience of relevant countries, China should launch an interdisciplinary training model suitable for its national condition.

Discussion on the Operation Mode of Public-Private Elderly Institutions under the High-Quality Development of Elderly Services

In the context of high-quality development of senior care services, public-private-run senior care institutions are a new type of senior care institution operation mode, which integrates the advantages of traditional public and private senior care institutions, circumvents the drawbacks of the two, and provides a new path choice for alleviating the diversified senior care needs of the elderly. By analyzing the internal and external advantages of the development mode of public-private elderly care institutions, as well as the threats and challenges faced in the development process. The study found that public-private elderly care institutions have the advantages of integrating elderly care resources and tending to be more specialized and diversified, but public-private elderly care institutions are also vulnerable to profit-driven, deviating from the positioning of public welfare; the lack of professional talents and other problems. The strategy of integration of industry and education should be further implemented to ensure the supply of professional nursing talents; strengthen the government's supervision and management, and establish a mechanism for the exit and introduction of public-private elderly care institutions. Further optimize the operation mode of public-private elderly care institutions, provide diversified choices of elderly care services, and help the high-quality development of elderly care services.

Research on the Development of Home Care Industry Based on Porter's Diamond Theory – Take Tianjin as an example

With the continuous reduction of household size, the increase of empty nest families of the elderly, and the weakening of family development ability and anti-risk ability, it is predicted that by 2025, the proportion of people aged 60 and above and those aged 65 and above in the permanent population of Tianjin will reach 24.66% and 17.35% respectively. The acceleration of the aging population in Tianjin has put forward higher requirements for the development of the elderly care industry. Meanwhile, The State Council issued Several Opinions on Comprehensively Opening the Elderly Care Service Market and Improving the Quality of Elderly Care Service on December 26, 2016. Based on this background, this paper uses Porter's diamond theory to introduce the development of home-based care industry in Tianjin from five aspects: resource elements, demand conditions, auxiliary industries, government functions and main opportunities, and finds that there are problems such as insufficient basic investment and lack of professional nursing talents in the development of the elderly care industry in Tianjin. Combined with the current information development level and policy background, this paper puts forward some policy suggestions, such as focusing on the training of professional nursing staff, correctly weighing the relationship between the government and the market, optimizing the environment for private investment in home care industry.

Research and Practice of Nursing Clinical Teaching in High School Nursing Education

This paper explores the theory and practice of nursing clinical teaching in nursing education in universities, discussing how to effectively improve students' practical abilities and clinical application levels. Through the analysis of relevant domestic and foreign literature and practical cases, this paper proposes some methods and strategies to improve nursing clinical teaching, including strengthening practical teaching, improving the teaching level of teachers, and establishing a good practical environment. The research results of this paper have certain reference value for improving the teaching quality of nursing education in universities and cultivating high-quality nursing talents.