eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine 2327-6657 2016-06-16 4 3 66 70 10.12691/ajmsm-4-3-5 AJMSM2016435 article Cui Kong 1 Jianwei Zhou immunolife@126.com 2 Li Xu 2 Yuqin Chen 3 Zhongyun Wang 3 Xianghua Hou 3 Nursing Department, Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Jining, P. R. China Clinical Laboratory, Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Jining, P. R. China Nusing School, Jining Medical University, Jining, P. R. China The clinical education of nursing trainees should be an important task for the teaching hospital. However, this work is always ignored to some extent. In this study, the continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach was applied in the clinical teaching of nursing trainees. The result indicated that CQI could raise the training quality for the nursing trainees, including the levels of professionalism, communicative competence, nursing theory and operation. Conclusion: Based on the present results, we suggested that CQI approach should be used in practice teaching during the period of clinical training for nurses. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmsm/4/3/5/ajmsm-4-3-5.pdf communicative competence continuous quality improvement clinical education nursing trainee