Survey on Psychological Knowledge and Application of Nursing Staff in a Grade 2A Hospital

Objective To understand the the status quo of nursing staff's psychological knowldege and application with the aim of providing a basis for promoting the application and development of clinical psychological nursing and improving psychological training for nursing staff.Methods Self-designed questionnaire were made for 116 nurses in a comprehensive Grade 2A hospital to fill in,which included the subjects' psychological knowledge and application,and their opinion of the demand for clinical psychological nursing.Results Those who agreed that psychological nursing is important in nursing work accounted for 95.7%,who agreed that competent psychological nursing demanded systematic knowledge and skills,84.5%,and who proclaimed to lack nursing psychology and be unable to apply psychological nursing,45.7%.83.6% had never used psychology assessment scale,only 21.6% had learned nursing psychology systematically,and 52.6% had not conducted intervention in this regard due to their busy work.Conclusion The nursing staff's psychological knowledge is scanty and the clinical application of it is not quite promising.Training of the nursing staff's psychological nursing knowledge and skills should be strengthened,and a work pattern in conformity with the actual national situation of our country should be developed to promote this nurisng work.