PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF NURSING IN FAMILY MEDICINE

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the nurse business reform in the Russian Federation. Its purpose is to improve the quality of medical aid rendering for the population by means of involving and more active use of the secondary nursing staff, as well as to heighten the nurse's social significance and status in the society. The reform is tightly bound up with the transition to the market economy and with the formation of family doctor institution. The authors present their own conception of the nurse business reform adapted for the Far-Eastern region features.