Investigation of Chinese Medicine Hospital Nurses' Requirement on Effect Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Program / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

This study was aimed to investigate the requirement of our hospital nurses in the effect evaluation of fifteen traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) nursing programs,and to make it as the basis for making feasible evaluation tables of TCM nursing programs.The investigation survey was given among 78 nurses from the internal medicine ward,surgical ward and the department of orthopedics in our hospital.The questionnaire was graded according to the Likert 5 scoring method,including 3 themes and 11 items.The SPSS 17.0 package was used for statistical processing.The results showed that 93％ nurses participated in the training of effect evaluation table of unified TCM nursing program in the hospital or department,but the overall attitude was negative in terms of the operability and objectivity on the effect evaluation of the program.Requirements of guidelines for effectiveness evaluation of TCM nursing program showed that most nurses agreed that the new TCM nursing program needed to increase quantifiable indicators and to increase its objectivity and reproducibility.It was concluded that nurses generally considered that the evaluation system of nursing program of TCM had no quantitative indicators,but with strong subjective.In the clinical practice,it is in urgent need of an objective TCM nursing program with quantitative indicators and strong operability.