Establishment of norms of nurses' professionalism in secondary and tertiary general hospitals

Abstract

Objective To investigate the current situation of nurses' professionalism in secondary and tertiary general hospitals, analyze its influence factors, and establish norms of nurses' professionalism in secondary and tertiary hospitals, so as to provide references for evaluation the level of professionalism in nurses. Methods From May to December 2016, the nurses' professionalism evaluation system was used to investigate 3 315 nurses in 35 secondary and tertiary general hospitals in 14 cities of 7 regions in China by using random cluster sampling, and the corresponding norm, classification norm and delimitation norm were defined. Results The average norm scores of nurses' professionalism in the secondary and tertiary general hospitals was (71.02 ± 16.70), and the average norm scores of each dimension were professional ethics（18.97 ± 4.52）, comprehensive capabilities（17.99 ± 4.46), professional skills (17.07 ± 4.80), professional emotions（16.98 ± 4.70）. According to the differences in characteristics, the classification norms for different gender, age, working years, educational background, professional title, position, department, marital status, with or without children were formed. The level of nurses' professionalism was divided into five grades：the total score in the interval [90.92, 100.00] was excellent, in the interval [78.31, 90.92) was good, in the interval [64.27, 78.31) was general, in the interval [50.49, 64.27) was relatively poor, in the interval [0.00, 50.49) was poor. Conclusions Nurses' professionalism in secondary and tertiary hospitals was in the general level and affected by a variety of factors, medical managers and nursing managers should take corresponding measures to improve nurses' professionalism.