Edwards N, Bunn H, Mei W C, Hui Z D
School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Public Health Nurs. 1999 Apr;16(2):140-5. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1446.1999.00140.x.
Community health nursing in China is an emerging specialty. A multi-component collaborative endeavor between the Schools of Nursing of Tianjin Medical University, China, and the University of Ottawa, Canada is described. This project, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency, commenced in 1989. It has laid the groundwork for an expanded role for community health nurses in Tianjin, a municipality of 11 million people located in Northeast China. The historical context for the evolution of community health nursing in China and the emergence of community health nursing as a priority area within the project are described. Major project activities are highlighted, illustrating several underlying principles for strengthening the educational preparation of baccalaureate nurses who can apply community health skills. These include creating a critical mass of faculty who can teach community health nursing, modelling classroom and clinical teaching of community health nursing, bridging the gap between nursing in the community and nursing, in the hospital, and developing a prototype for baccalaureate community health nursing experience. Lessons learned from this initiative are summarized.
中国的社区卫生护理是一个新兴专业。本文描述了中国天津医科大学护理学院与加拿大渥太华大学之间多方面的合作努力。该项目由加拿大国际开发署资助，于1989年启动。它为中国东北拥有1100万人口的天津市社区卫生护士扩大角色奠定了基础。文中描述了中国社区卫生护理发展的历史背景以及社区卫生护理作为该项目优先领域的出现。重点介绍了主要项目活动，阐述了加强能够应用社区卫生技能的本科护士教育培养的若干基本原则。这些原则包括培养一批能够教授社区卫生护理的骨干教师，为社区卫生护理的课堂教学和临床教学树立典范，弥合社区护理与医院护理之间的差距，以及开发本科社区卫生护理体验的原型。总结了从该倡议中吸取的经验教训。
