Reflection on the Sino-Australia cooperation program based on professional performance appraisal on its / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives By survey the head nurses or nursing instructors,to know the one year professional performance of nurses graduated from Sino-Australia cooperation program of Jinhua Polytechnic,which can help us to make the educational plan and further cultivation.MethodSelf-composed questionnaire is provided to 32 head nurses or nursing instructors from secondary and tertiary hospitals of Zhejiang province.SPSS 18 is applied for data analysis.ResultThe nurses' performance is generally consistent to the objectives ofthe Sino-Australia nursing program and the rating scores are normally distributed. There is no significant difference in the average performance of nurses comparing to a test value of 71,P≤0.08.The scores of professional quality,nursing competency,English ability,humanitarian caring,active learning,team work and adaptability to clinical responsibilities were especially well rated.ConclusionResults indicated that the school should appropriately adjust the direction for students＇ employment,consider to localize the nursing courses introduced from foreign countries.It is necessary for the hospitals to ponder on how to further cultivate and utilize the English competency of the nurses,and use the individualized strategies to retain the nurses who are proficient in English.