[An investigation of post-secondary nursing continuing education].

An investigation was made in 20 hospitals in Nanjing to the abilities of the post-secondary college nursing graduates in 4 aspects: (1) nursing technical practice; (2) the numbers of head nurse employment; (3) nursing teaching; (4) nursing research and academic paper writing. Meanwhile a comparison was made between them and college graduates and baccalaureate graduates. Result showed that they were evidently better than baccalaureate graduates (P < 0.01) in nursing technical practice, head nurse employment, and nursing research and obviously different from college graduates (P < 0.01) in technical practice and nursing research. Post secondary continuing education in nursing, as one of the ways of higher nursing education yet adopted, has been playing an extremely important role in the improvement and development of nursing in China.