Study on problems and countermeasures in bilingual English teaching for foreign-related nursing students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective To investigate the current situation and problems of bilingual English teaching for students majored in foreign-related nursing and to explore its countermeasures.Methods Selfmade questionnaire survey was conducted anonymously among 69 undergraduate students majored in foreign-related nursing.Students' basic information,self-evaluation of English level,classroom interaction,evaluation and satisfaction of the curriculum,their conception of curriculum necessity,elective reasons,preferences of teaching methods and learning style,learning interest,as well as confidence in learning were investigated.Excel 2007 was used to do statistical analysis.Results 92.42％ questionnaire was effectively recovered.It is suggested that this group of students' public English background was strong (90.16 ％ passed CET-4).Students have low sense of self-identity and lack of confidence in themselves (self-rated English:‘ very good' for 0％,‘ good' for 1.64％,‘ general' for 52.46％,‘ bad' for 39.34％,‘ very poor' for 6.56％).They knew the necessity of the curriculum clearly,but paid less attention to it (extracur-ricular professional English learning time of 68.85％ was less than 30 minutes; 21.31％ of them hardly took time to learn).There were significant differences in favorable proportion of English teaching among stu-dents,from less than 50％ to 100％ respectively.Poor speaking and listening ability and poor profes-sional vocabularies had negative impact on classroom interaction.Conclusions Faculty need to make efforts in inspiring students' interest of learning,improving students' English speaking and listening abilities as well as confidence cultivation and further explore curriculum planning.

Investigation into the advanced training status for emergency department nurses in Chongqing / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ObjectiveTo study the advanced training status for emergency department nurses in Chongqing,and to improve the training program.MethodsThe basic and professional information of 208 emergency department nurses who obtained advanced training for emergency nursing in the previous 5 years was analyzed and the self-designed Satisfaction Survey on Teaching and Self-evaluation on Training Outcome were applied to learn about the feedback of trainees.ResultsThe average age of trainees was ( 29.24 ± 5.44 ),among whom 65.86％ with junior college education experience,49.51％ with 2-5 years of working experience,50.48％ at primary professional rank,61.53％ from second level hospitals.Their average score ( 77.91 ± 7.69 ),and teaching satisfaction score was ( 87.01 ± 7.63 ).The survey indicated that self-evaluation on training outcome was significant to enhance emergency nursing knowledge and skills,while weak to improve research and managing capability.ConclusionNurses attending advanced training for emergency nursing are characterized with short working time,low professional ranks,jagged education experiences and various levels of hospital. It is suggested to adopt leveled training in accordance with education experience and working hospital of trainees,and to strengthen nursing research and team managing competencies.