| Objective: Understand the cognitive status of nursing knowledge in Xinjiang Uygur and Kazakh medicine hospitals, Discuss and analysis the needs of nursing staff cognitive knowledge of ethnomedicine hospitals, which can provide a theoretical basis to draw up a reasonable project and measures for ethnomedicine nursing continuing education and training. Methods: In this study, using stratified cluster random sampling method and self-made questionnaire, (survey in general ethnomedicine hospital nurses, hospital nurses awareness and demand of ethnomedicine knowledge questionnaire), To the Xinjiang region of 258 nurses in four ethnomedicine hospitals conducted a questionnaire survey in March to August 2011. Results: 219nurses in the Uygur medicine hospitals, 60.7% of it was secondary education, undergraduate education only 5.6%; 39 Kazakh nurses, 84.6% secondary education, no undergraduate qualifications. Nearly 50% ethnomedicine nursing staff participated in the training of health-related knowledge during the academic education of nursing, but nearly 80% of the nursing staff less than 10 hours of training hours; still 13.6% Uighur medicine nurses, 53.8% of the Kazakh health nurses have not received pre-job training. Among 258 respondents, 82.8 percent of ethnomedicine nurses keen to participate in the nursing knowledge and training, 3.9% of the staff do not wish to participate fully; nurses who accept participating in the training, 48.8% of all full-time training personnel selection methods, 3.2% self-selected; the options in the training of teachers, 61.4 percent chose ethnomedicine nursing teachers, outside experts to select 3.1%. Conclusions: 1) majority of ethnomedicine nurses'work period is shorter. This younger age, shorter age care nurse role and its work may serve the high enthusiasm and initiative work, sometimes in practice, the use of new techniques, new methods, but its relative lack of experience in clinical practice may affect the national health care in all areas. 2) Although a master's degree, but college-level education is still small. Improve the national health clinical nurse education and training with a certain percentage of bachelors, masters and doctoral nurses, title high, middle and lower with a reasonable, health care and to promote sustainable and healthy national development plays an important role. 3) the structure of national health nurses were younger, title low, the trend of shorter working life. This may be related to a lower degree of national health nurse for the first and only take certain measures to improve the education level of national health nurses, to improve the structure of the title of national health nurses, doctors to nurses to young peoples effective "mass, to help with. 4) Uighur medicine nurses received national rate of health care and job training than theory Kazakh health nurses, therefore, when planning training units according to the primary health Uygur, Kazak health status and needs of nursing staff, better focus the training program design. Primary health nurse training can learn from Kazakhstan two or more Uygur Autonomous Region Hospital nurse job training experience, local conditions to implement training. 5) health authorities and medical institutions should be combined with multi-ethnic and local farmers and herdsmen living habits of the different characteristics, focused, local conditions, make the best use, step by step, to speed up Xinjiang's development of national health, the competent authorities and relevant leaders should be given high priority and concerns in the policy to be tilted, to support national health development of medical and health services, while vigorously support national health nursing training and continuing education. |