Public Health Nurses’ Knowledge, Skills and Practice Gaps and Related Continuing Education Factors in Hualien and Taitung Counties
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Hsu, Meng-Chi
Abstract
Along with social change, public health nurses face more complex care issues and need to constantly improve new knowledge and skills to cope with the nursing practices required. This study aimed to understand the primary community health care practitioners in Hualien and Taitung, in facing a variety of new community health challenges and license renewal, what is in-service education needed for knowledge and skills for practice. To explore continuing education need in remote and disadvantaged areas of eastern Taiwan, will be the reference for similar district in the future. A cross-sectional, correlation study design with structured questionnaire research method was used. The questionnaire was developed by the researchers. Questionnaire validity used expert content validity. 160 public health nurses completed the questionnaire with a response rate 70.2%. The results of this study show a moderate level of knowledge and skills scores. Ability of nursing practice skills is good, but the administrative capacity of leadership and management is poor. Feel a lack of courses included ""analysis and assessment"", ""policy development and implementation of activities planned"" and ""practical aspects of communication."" In recent one year in-service education, the most were ""public health"" and ""practice aspects of the community."" Fewer courses were ""leadership and management"", ""culture"" and ""financial management."" For those nurses with less years of community work experiences and the younger, license renewal as a reason to attend courses were higher. Regression analysis showed, participants of license renewal as main reason had less amount of in-service education. As a impact of license renewal, in-service education involvement have been enhanced over the past. It is recommended in the future when designing in-service education program, curriculum can be more addressed to leadership and management courses. In-service education not only increases in the quantity but also quality.
Subjects
public health nursing
public health nurses
continuing education
Knowledge
skills and Practice Requirements
License Renewal System
SDGs
Type
thesis
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