Development Of Nursing Educational Standards For Military Colleges

ObjectiveThe theoretical model of army nurse'quality and the theoretical model of nursing specialty construction in military university with the prominent character of army competence was developed in order to meet the requirement of modern high and new technology war. Then, nursing education standards with good applicability in army was developed on the basis of the two models mentioned above. These standards which covered all programs ran by military colleges will help to improve the performance of nursing training in military colleges effectively.Methods1. Literature research was used to master the current state and trend of research about nursing and related education standards in and abroad, army and civilian. Nursing and medical education standards were collected and analyzed from the content, structure and nature.2. Case research was used to study the US educational accredited system, which help us to catch up the research trend and characters of nursing education standards in international high level. Research content was as follow:access to the development history of nursing educational accreditation in US. Content analysis and the level analysis were used in the study of education standards. Comparative study was used to compare various accredited organizations in parallel way and standards of different years in vertical way.3. Comparative study was used to fill out the special indicators of nursing talent quality and specialty construction in military schools.4. Theoretical study and expert panel meeting were held to develop the theoretical model of army nurse'quality, the theoretical model of nursing specialty construction in military university and the specialty accreditation model for military colleges.5. Nursing Educational Standards for Military colleges were improved by the Delphi study.Results1. Mainly concepts in the research were defined. The types and function of the standards was summarized. Authoritative nursing and related standards were collected and analyzed.2. Make out and analysis the US accreditation system all-around including the aim and history of accreditation. We found that the accredited organizations were large in mount and with highly special characters in the development. The education standards could be divided into two types:one is used to evaluate the competence of students, the other is used to evaluate the quality of programs. Besides, these standards were developed in the macro and flexible way. The autonomy of the colleges and consistent quality improvement were caused attention in the accreditation procedure. The detailed and clear fee for accreditation would help to avoid the accidence of extravagance, waste and forgery.3. The common character of research methods for education standards was summarized and analyzed:①People from professional organizations were asked to undertake the task of standard development.②Literature study and experts consultation were the common used methods.③ollection and assimilation of public comment from different interest body was important.4. Chinese standard of the medical education—clinical medicine programs(trail) and Educational assessment for bachelor programs in civil colleges and universities (trail) was compared to find out the position of the education standard and the detail level of content for the standard developing. The indicators of Educational assessment for bachelor programs in military colleges and universities(trail) and Educational assessment for bachelor programs in civil colleges and universities (trail) was compared systematically to know the areas and indicators that were required particular by army. The training objective of nursing talents in military and civilian colleges was compared to find out the value, knowledge and abilities that were required particular by army. The particular requirement for army nurses by war was concluded mainly from the analysis of the new requirements for military health service and nursing by high and new technology war in the future. Beside, the literature study about the nursing in the war of Iraq, gulf and Vietnam was another resource.5. Four elements of education including aim, educators, educatee and materials, were proposed on the basis of literature study of the concept of pedagogy. Then, the relationship between four elements was explicated. At last, the basic areas of nursing specialty construction were obtained.6. The theoretical model of army nurse'quality and the theoretical model of nursing specialty construction in military university were developed by using Bloom's classification of educational objectives, Stufflebeam's CIPP Evaluation Model and the current research achievements made by our project team.7. The principles for the education standard construction were established on the basis of theoretical study and the expert panel meeting. Then, Nursing Educational Standards for Military colleges(a draft for discussion) was explored and improved by expert consultation.Conclusion1. In this study, the content, function, procedure and methods for construction of international nursing and medical education standards were summarized and analyzed, which can provide the reference for China to establish the nursing educational standards as well as other special educational standards and promote nursing education in China into line with the international nursing education.2. In this study, the system of military educational standards has the advances as follow:the military requirement is outstanding, nursing character is emphasized, the function of guidance is played in different level. Above all, the standard is scientific and practical, which will lay the foundation for the running of nursing accredited system in military.3. The whole system of educational standards developed in this study, including associate, bachelor, master and doctor programs, provides scientific basis for military nursing schools or department to decide the position of programs, talents training, and accreditation of different programs. Besides, the standards also offer the references to set up Chinese nursing educational standards for various programs.4. The accredited system of specialty for military universities needs to be constructed on the basis of the standards actively in the future. There are several suggestions for the system construction:first, accredited activities should be regulated by the law. Second, accredited activities should be carried out under the direction of theory. Third, accredited indicators should be developed in accordance with the standards. Forth, medium organization should be established to complete the accredited organizations. Fifth, accredited activities should be implemented in line with the accreditedplan.