Duty fulfillment of professional role among community nurses in Sichuan Province

Objective To investigate and understand the duty fulfillment of professional role among community nurses in Sichuan Province. Methods From August 2016 to December 2016, we selected 969 community nurses at 56 communities in Sichuan by convenience sampling combined with cluster sampling. The duty fulfillment of professional role of community nurses was investigated with the role behavior frequency questionnaire for community nurses. Epidata 3.1 was used to data entry and SPSS 19.0 was used to statistical analysis on the data. Results Among community nurses, the highest scores of fulfillment frequency of role behavior were organizers and managers (2.63±0.91) , and the lowest scores were service object spokesmen (2.11±0.87) . There were statistical differences in the scores of different role behavior frequencies (P<0.01) . At the same time, there were statistical differences in the duty fulfillment of professional role among community nurses with different areas and professional levels (P<0.05) . Conclusions The role function of service object spokesmen of community nurses needs to be strengthened. Community managers of different areas should set the type of post and formulate service contents according to regional characteristics and professional levels of community nurses. Key words: Nurses; Community health services; Professional role; Role function