Investigation on health policy and policy related behaviors in community nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective We aimed to investigate the community nurses' awareness of health policy,related behaviors and paths of learning.Methods A total of 150 community nurses were enrolled in this study by answering a self-completion questionnaire.The survey contents included general conditions of nurses,awareness,related behaviors and paths of learning of community health policy.Results 91.7％ of the respondents believed that heahh policy was important or very important,but only 10.4％ of the respondents understood health policy fully.71.5％ said that they would lecture patients health policy actively and 70.8％ would lecture their colleagues actively.51.4％ respondents would like to take part in policy-making if they were allowed.Education background,professional title and the awareness of health policy were factors of community nurses' policy related behaviors.They learned health policy by working meeting,training and documents.Conclusions It is necessary to improve their school record and adjust their professional title,to strengthen the publicity of health policy by broaden channels of publicity.By these,community nurses' awareness of health policy would be improved,their policy related behaviors would be promoted.Further,the health policy would be well delivered and implemented.