Genetic and genomic nursing competency among nurses in tertiary general hospitals and cancer hospitals in mainland China: a nationwide survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore genetic/genomic nursing competency and associated factors among nurses from tertiary general and specialist cancer hospitals in mainland China and compare the competencies of nurses from the two types of hospitals.

Design and setting

A cross-sectional survey was conducted from November 2019 to January 2020, wherein 2118 nurses were recruited from 8 tertiary general hospitals and 4 cancer hospitals in mainland China. We distributed electronic questionnaires to collect data on nurses' demographics, work-related variables and genomic nursing competency.

Participants

2118 nurses were recruited via a three-stage stratified cluster sampling method.

Results

More than half (59.1%, 1252/2118) of the participants reported that their curriculum inclu

SUBMITTER: Zhao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9809297 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature