Health education status among community nurses

Objective: To explore health education status among community nurses. Methods: One hundred and forty-two nurses in Haidian and Xicheng District in Beijing were investigated by self-designed questionnaire using convenient sampling, Results: About 95.1% of community nurses thought health education was important. About 90.2% of community nurses were willing to take health education positively. The factors affecting community nurses to take health education were limited professional knowledge (53.8%). no enthusiasm for community residents to participate (43.7%), no convenient and practical health education reference books (42.3%). The difficults that the community nurses confronted with were the organizing and atmosphere controling at the activity scene (58.5%), choosing and applying educational methods (17.6%), organizing community residents to participate in activities (16.9%).Conclusion: Community nurses carry out health education very positively, but they lack the practical skills of health education. Further training is needed to improve their health education ability.