Identification of Key Issues of Nursing Professional Degree Graduate Education in China
Objective To identify the problems in master's degree in nursing of postgraduate education in China,and to provide ideas for pedagogical reform by defining the key issues.Methods A total of 165 papers on China's master's degree in nursing education were collected to establish a problem review da-tabase.The problem entries were summarized according to the macro model of the health system,and the key problems in the field were identified by calculating the severity,importance,and priority indices.Re-sults A total of 26 categories of problems were formed,with the key problems summarized as"insuffi-cient ability of clinical instructors,i.e.often copying undergraduate teaching methods","lack of a unified national training program without detailed training objectives","unclear requirements for clinical practice with no unified clinical practice assessment standard",and"lack of core competence in nursing masters,with weak ability in critical thinking,research and innovation,and clinical decision-making.Conclusions The key problems of master's degree in nursing requires optimization of the training program,teaching management and human resources,in order to improve the quality of nursing masters.
master's degree in nursingeducationmacro model of the health system