Social demand is the driving force for the development of any discipline. In the coming 2 1 century, people pay more attention to their health than ever before, and governments and scientists all over the world are investing huge sums of money and energy to study health problems. The completion and clinical application of the human genome project may be the first major scientific achievement in the new century. Taking this as an opportunity, human health and life will certainly become better. Nurses will play a very important role in the pursuit of this lofty goal.
The development of nursing discipline is also an important factor to promote the development of nursing health education. Throughout the 20th century, nursing experienced a historical stage from simply caring for diseases to caring for people. When people of insight in the nursing field advocated the development of patient-centered holistic nursing, nursing health education was put on the agenda of discipline development. Because nursing without health education cannot be called holistic nursing.
Almost in the blink of an eye, nursing health education has been carried out in almost all hospitals in China to varying degrees. What is more gratifying is that a large number of monographs on nursing health education have been published one after another, and the vast number of nursing workers have summarized rich experience in nursing health education in clinical practice. I believe in the near future. Nurses who master the basic theories and methods of health education will be as skilled and handy as those who master the basic nursing operation techniques such as injection, puncture and dressing change. At that time, we can say that nurses have accepted the call of 2 1 century.