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Table 3 The third stage: returning to the community for internship

From: A study on the “community-hospital-community” model of community nursing practice teaching for undergraduate nursing students

Internship Department

Number of days of internship

Internship content

Appraisal requirements

Community Resident Health Records Management Section

Two days

1. Welcome each new student to the department, familiar with the department environment, clear department layout, facilities, work content, and workflow.

2. Guide the students to understand the establishment and management of health records, the management process of the elderly, hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke records, and some notes.

3. Establish the “people-oriented” service concept, learn to respect, and care for chronic patients in practice, and strengthen nurse-patient communication. Cultivate good psychological characteristics, optimism, cheerfulness, modesty, and caution, get along well with colleagues, abide by the ethical duties of nursing, and serve patients wholeheartedly.

4. Household follow-up visits for chronic diseases in community families

Participate in at least one community nursing assessment, one health education, and one chronic disease management

Department of Chinese Medicine Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Two days

1. Focus on teaching the clinical application of appropriate techniques of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), such as acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, and scraping, to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of traditional Chinese medicine.

2. To lead students to know about TCM and understand the efficacy and usage of common TCM.

3. Introduce the advantages of pediatric massage in treating pediatric diseases to students, and briefly introduce the basic health care methods of pediatric massage.

4. To lead the students to visit the health education base of TCM, publicize the culture of TCM, popularize the knowledge of TCM, and show the long history, scientific theory, and unique methods of TCM, so that the students can personally feel the charm of TCM culture.

5. To popularize the concept of preventing diseases and health care methods of TCM to students, impart knowledge of TCM constitution identification, and let students know the nine constitutions and maintenance methods of TCM.

 

General Practice Clinic

Two days

1. Familiar with the concepts of primary health care, community health service, and community nursing, make correct and reasonable community nursing diagnoses and community nursing assessments, and be familiar with and understand the epidemiological characteristics of chronic diseases.

2. Familiar with the contents of community health services, understand what is the six in one, understand the importance of “prevention” in community health work, and understand the combination of health education and clinical care.

3. Familiar with the common diseases and illnesses in the community, familiar with basic nursing operations, strict requirements to master aseptic operations, venipuncture, intramuscular injection, oxygenation, nebulized inhalation, and other operating procedures, precautions, familiar with the preparation of common skin test drugs, positive determination criteria, anaphylaxis rescue measures, the performance of common adverse reactions, rescue and treatment measures (participate in health education).

4. Understand the basic drug system, the basic drug catalog, and zero-price sales of drugs.

 

Maternal and child health care room

Two days

1. Focused on knowledge of pregnancy care, time, and content of prenatal checkups.

2. Master the communication skills with pregnant women and mothers.

3. Understand the growth and development pattern of children from 0 to 36 months, make assessments and give guidance and suggestions on the results of children’s checkups.

4. Master the content of postnatal visits and take internship students to households for postnatal visits.

Participate in at least one family visit

Vaccination Room

Two days

1. Familiar with the work content, responsibilities, and various work processes of the department; master the contact and communication methods with families and children.

2. Master child immunization procedures, techniques, precautions, and vaccine management requirements, and be familiar with the types and classification of infectious diseases.

3. Understand community infectious disease reporting and management procedures, and participate in community infectious disease supervision and flow transfer.

4. Master the theoretical basic knowledge and basic skills of this department, establish good professional ethics, cultivate a high degree of responsibility, and improve the ability to analyze and solve problems alone.

Participate in at least one preventive vaccination

  1. TCM Traditional Chinese medicine