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ObjectiveTo investigate the best pattern of the discussion on nursing cases of severe cardiac patients and improve the quality of the clinical nursing activity.Methods90 nurses from six cardiac units were divided into the control group and the experimental group with 45 nurses in each group. The experimental group adopted PBL teaching method, the control group adopted conventional teaching method. The discussion of severe cardiac patients was proceeded twice every month for one year.Results The experimental group was better than the control group in master and application of the basic cardiac knowledge, nursing quality of serious patients and effectiveness of nurse-patient communication.ConclusionsDiscussion with PBL teaching method is superior to the conventional method. This method can widen the nurses'thread, improve the nurses' ability to solve problem, so it is worthy of wide application.
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Objective To explore the common problems that facing the nursing trainees and seek the way to solving them. Methods The established Internet forum for nursing eases which was divided into six areas,such as clinical decision,ethical problems,nursing skills, the relationship between teachers and students,the relationship between nurses and patients,vocational prevention;77 nursing stuedents who were from three junior colleges of Jiangxi province participated in this study voluntarily.Nursing cases that happened during practical period were sent to the forum by volunteers and were discussed by nursing students and tutors. Results The cases sent by the nursing students were listed as the following order:relationship between teachers and students, relationship between nurses and patients, vocational prevention, clinical decision, ethical problem, and nursing skills. Conclusions During practical period, the main problems which the nursing students focused on stemod from the relationship between teachers and students, the relationship between nurses and patients and vocational prevention. Nursing educators should put emphases on the related knowledge and skills in order to improve the students'ability of coping with these problems.