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Objective To explore job satisfaction degrees and the influencing factors among community nurses. Method General information questionnaire and the revised job satisfaction questionnaire were adopted in the investigation among 124 nurses from 28 community health service centers in Nanchong City between February to October 2016. Results The total score was (119.62 ± 15.37), at the moderate to high level. Of the eight dimensions, relationship with colleagues was scored the highest, and personal growth was the lowest. The influencing factors of the nurse's job satisfaction were found to be employment type, work positions, service duration in the community and whether they have been trained on community nursing position (all P<0.05). Conclusions The job satisfaction degree of community nurses is generally at middle level. Therefore, measures should be taken to improve the job satisfaction for the development of community nursing services.
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Objective To explore the influence of continuity care model on how to deal with medical waste of insulin injections among domestic patients Methods Consecutive diabetes patients using the home insulin injections were recruited as the the members of our Diabetes Education Classfrom September 2014 to March 2015. The home medical waste disposal was brought into the content of diabetes education;problems were intervened through the continuity care model. Using the questionnaire survey to investigate the cognitive and disposal of patients on medical waste, to compare the difference of results of questionnaire before and after the intervention. Results The cognitive rate of medical waste after intervention was 97.70%(212/217),while the cognitive rate before intervention was 3.69%(8/217), the difference was significant (χ2=383.63,P<0.01). Disposal of diabetes patients using the home insulin injections had improved after the continuity care, the rate of dealing with medical waste according to specification after the intervention was 91.24% (198/217),while the rate before the intervention was 3.23%(7/217), the difference was significant (χ2=337.26,P<0.01). Conclusions The continuity care model standardized the behavior of patients for disposal of medical waste, reduced the environment pollution of medical waste and decreased the spread of disease.
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Objective To estimate the acceptability of nurses for division of labor pattern in China.Methods A total of 1 609 nurses in 3 provinces were investigated by self-made questionnaires.The contents of questionnaires included assignment distribution,the acceptability of current division pattern,and whether current division pattern can arouse working enthusiasm of nurses.Results The proportion of those engaged in not only life nursing but also technical nursing was more than 40％,and those only engaged in life nursing was lower than 5％ in nurses with junior college,college or bachelor education degree.The nurses' acceptability of current division pattern of nursing work was poor,most fairly reasonable and very general.The improvement of working enthusiasm for division of labor pattern at present was also poor.The higher educational background except master,the lower improvement of working enthusiasm.Conclusions The poor nurses' acceptability of division of labor pattern was low and impacted working enthusiasm.It suggested to establish a scientific and reasonable division of labor pattern for improvement of nurse working enthusiasm,and promote the overall development of clinical nursing,nursing management,nursing education and nursing scientific research.