Investigation and research of nurses'willingness and cognition on multiple-sites practice in Shenyang city / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To Investigate the willingness of nurses on multiple-sites practice in Shenyang city and their motivations and concerns on multiple-sites practice, and to provide reference for the implementation of nurses' multiple-sites practice policy. Methods A convenient sampling method was used to conduct a questionnaire survey of 845 registered nurses in Shenyang city. Results 82.13％(694/845) nurses indicated that they were in favor of nurses on multiple-sites practice, and 79.05％(668/845) nurses expressed their willingness to engage in multiple-sites practice. The differences in the age, job title, working hours, monthly income of nurses and whether specialist nurses were statistically different from their willingness to multiple-sites practice (χ2=10.73-96.40, all P<0.01), and whether Chinese medicine nurse (χ2=6.42, P<0.05) was also different in their willingness to multiple-sites practice. Raising their own economic income and worrying about their overworked workload were the biggest drivers (89.37％,597/668) and concerns of nurses practicing multiple points respectively(88.14％,156/177). 82.04％(548/668) and 70.21％(496/668) of nurses believed that multi-practice practice was conducive to improve their self-worth and enhance nursing work skills. The lack of protection of rights and security (70.01％, 124/177) and the unclear medical risk of practice (53.12％, 94/177) were important factors restricting nurses′ multi-practice practice. In addition, nurses believed that the state should improve relevant laws and regulations (83.31％, 704/845) and protect the legal rights of nurses (88.64％, 745/845). Conclusions Nurses are generally optimistic about multiple-sites practice. Under the premise of sufficient energy and perfect legal protection, nurses multiple-sites practice is a practical and effective measure, which can increase the economic and social value of nurses, and at the same time classify the country′s practice. The medical treatment system provides protection of medical resources.