A study on the demands and status of the development of specialty nurse in 16 Tibet hospitals / 中国实用护理杂志

Objectives@#To find out the demands and status in quo of the development of specialty nursing and to provide positive suggestions for the further development of specialty nursing in Tibet.@*Methods@#Self-designed questionnaire was adopted to investigate 16 different level hospitals across Tibet.@*Results@#Among the 16 hospitals in which there were altogether 1677 nursing staff and only 11 hospitals had cultivated specialty nurses with a number of 123 in total. The rate of specialty nurses allocated was 7.2%. 9 hospitals expressed the need to develop specialty nurses in nearly future and the number of specialty nurses needed was 577.@*Conclusion@#Tibet should step up the development of specialty nursing, establish and perfect the training method and management system about specialty nurses as soon as possible.

Retrospective study of nursing care adverse events at high altitude area of Lhasa city / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To understand the status and features of nursing care adverse events and to offer scientific basis for improving patient safety management of nursing at high altitude area. Methods Data such as categories, causes, time distribution and other factors of nursing care adverse events were collected from January 2013 to August 2014 in the People′s Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region were analyzed. Results Over the study period, 50 adverse events were recorded and the most common types were tube emersion(26%,13/50), pressure sores(14%,7/50) and scald(12%,6/50) respectively. The proportions of different severity of adverse events were hidden events (48%,24/50), events without bad consequence(36%,18/50), adverse events(14%,7/50) and warning events(2%,1/50) respectively. The ineffective communication, inadequate assessment, and not abiding by the rules accounted for 70%(35/50) of the causes of adverse events. 7:00-10:59 and 19:00-22:59 period was the high incidence of adverse events, respectively accounted for 32%(16/50) and 26%(13/50). Conclusions The management of nursing adverse events at high altitude area need to consider the geographical characteristics,besides, to guarantee the implementation of the system,reduce the bed / nurse ratio, improve the comprehensive quality of nurses and other measures can be taken to reduce the occurrence of adverse events.