Nursing education development in China (1887–1949): influences on contemporary nursing

Abstract

The study displays the benefits and challenges of participation in policy and forums that help nurse scholars and practitioners understand the development of nurse education in China.

The development and challenges of public health nursing education in China from 1912 to 1949: A historical study

“…The challenges associated with the localization of public health nursing education Modern nursing education in China (1887China ( -1949 was significantly affected by nursing developments in other countries (Yan et al, 2014). This situation was also the case with regard to early public health nursing education, in which context the curriculum, teaching content and textbooks were modeled after those in Europe and the United Europe and the United States were undergoing a process of urbanization (Kub et al, 2015); meanwhile, China's rural population accounted for 85% of the country's total population (Xie, 1937), and the country's social structure was different from that of nations in the West.…”

“…According to Yan et al. (2014), nursing education was standardized when the Nurses Association of China (NAC) established the Board of Nursing Education in 1912. In 1914, the NAC organized the first National Nurses' Conference and advocated that hospital nurses should extend their services to towns and villages (Clark, 1925).…”

Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Snizek-revised Hall’s Professionalism Inventory Scale

“…China’s Ministry of Education formally upgraded the nursing profession, subordinated to clinical medicine since 2011, from a second-class to a first-class discipline. 18 In community health service centers of several pilot cities, nurse practitioners are allowed to practice independently with limited prescription rights. Additionally, the scale of the nursing workforce has rapidly increased; mainland China has shown an average annual increase of 200,000 nurses, especially those with higher diplomas.…”

A review of the development and current status of wound ostomy continence nurses in the mainland of China

“…Clinical nurse specialists (CNS) is an expert who applies an expanded range of theoretical knowledge, rich clinical experience and advanced skills to the care of patients within a specialty nursing area involved in improving the quality care, reducing the cost and promoting patients' health, and provides advanced model and direction for the development of professional nursing [1]. The national health and family planning commission (NHFPC) made clear in the national plan for the development of national nursing (2016–2020) that should strengthen the training of CNS and improve the professional skills during the 13th five-year plan period [2].…”