Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate education contents by skill achievement levels of student nurses according to public health nurses before and after education system improvement of public health nursing.
Methods: An anonymous self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted on public health nurses who taught student nurses in 2013 and 2015 in special wards of Tokyo. The surveyed public health centers or departments were 86 facilities in 2013 and 78 facilities in 2015, and the survey was performed in the public health nurse of each facility. Public health nursing curriculums of all universities were integrated courses until 2013; 10 out of 14 universities were an elective course in 2015. Question items were skill achievement levels at the time of graduation, age, years of work experience, job title, the number of public health nurses, period of practice, and the number of student nurses.
Results: There were 49 responses in 2013, and 35 responses were analyzed. The percentage of 24 skill achievement items in 2015 was significantly higher than in 2013.
Discussion: 40% of the total skill achievement items of increased, and there was not items which decreased. These results suggest that the teaching effectiveness was obtained as an evaluation of the public health nurses after education system improvement.
