Professional and applied nurses’ training

The nurse’s work belongs to the «person-to-person» type of jobs and, therefore, it is focused on contact with colleagues and patients, which implies the ability to establish and maintain business contacts, understand human relationships, show logical abilities, erudition and leadership qualities. The nurse profession is classified as intellectual work, which is characterized by the processing of a large amount of various information, requires memory mobilization, attention span, and is often associated with stressful situations. Thus, the efficiency and quality of nurses’ work significantly depends on their health status, functional and physical abilities. The important goal of professional and applied nurses training is the predominant development of applied basic physical qualities: endurance, strength, agility, reaction, flexibility. All this necessitates the arranging of physical education at college. The content of the Physical Education course should be focused on the developing future nurses’ physical activities. This article presents the main directions of professional and applied training of students of a medical college.