To explore the effect of nursing scientific research training based on system cybernetics.

The system cybernetics was applied in the scientific research training of 116 inservice nurses. The 4-level nursing scientific research management system which consisted of the mentor, research team, department head nurse and the director of nursing department was implemented. The key point of the training process was controlled from the aspects of training goal, curriculum content, teacher control, training method, information exchange, curriculum schedule and training effect. The scientific research ability, the scientific research quantity and the teaching satisfaction of nurses were compared between the data before and after training.

After training, according to the scores of self-rating scientific research ability scale, the ability of finding problems (2.56±0.34) , the ability of consulting literature (2.78±0.31) , the ability of designing scientific researches (2.60±0.4) , the ability of processing data (2.35±0.39) , the ability of writing dissertation (2.41±0.37) , the practice ability of scientific researches (2.38±0.29) of 116 inservice nurses were all significantly higher than the data before training (t=30.404, 38.513, 26.951, 23.041, 25.069, 27.655; P<0.01) . After training, the numbers of written dissertations (116) , published papers (43) , project applications (20) , project approvals (8) were all higher than the data before training. The teaching satisfaction degree of nurses after training was higher than that before training.

The nursing scientific research training based on system cybernetics can effectively improve the scientific research ability of nurses and stimulate their studying enthusiasm.

Nurses; System cybernetics; Nursing scientific research; Training