Opportunities and challenges for nurses in the face of elderly care with medical support / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The authors analyzed the opportunities and challenges faced by nurses in the time of elderly care with medical support using SWOT analysis, for the purpose of suggestions for the development of nurses to cope with such new scenario. Advantages of the nurses in such a time are as follows professional nursing care, holistic care ability, and standardized assessment skill. Their disadvantages include poor team leadership, insufficient business and management skills, and poor motivation for personal development. Their opportunities include guidance of the national strategy, innovation of " Internet plus", and flexible working hours. Their challenges include room of improvements for both quantity and quality of nursing personnel, better efficiency for integration and allocation of resources, and better capability to leverage" Smart elderly care". Four suggestions are raised in this regard, i. e., to strengthen the ability for elderly care with medical support, to improve multidisciplinary coordination, to cultivate their entrepreneurship, and to improving the ability of information application.