ABSTRACT
Objective To provide suggestions on how to improve the ability of rehabilitation nursing by investigating the current situation of clinical nurses' knowledge, skills and cognition of rehabilitation nursing and analyzing the influential factors. Methods According to the cross-sectional survey method, a self-designed questionnaire was used to investigate the clinical nurses' current status of knowledge and skills, cognition of rehabilitation nursing.Totally 278 nurses from 7 hospitals were included in this study. Results The scores of clinical nurses' knowledge, skeills and cognition of rehabilitation nursing were 11.13 ±3.29 and 33.27 ±3.92. Variables associated with the scores of the rehabilitation nursing are age, nursing professional title, work duration, and degree of education. Conclusion The clinical nurses had positive attitude on rehabilitation,but their knowledge and skill were insufficient. Measures should be taken to improve nurses'ability of rehabilitation nursing.