Cultivation Objectives: With elitism and internationalization as the characteristics of running the school, the nursing program of Jiangnan University aims to cultivate high-end nursing talents and senior managers and researchers in the cross-cutting fields with the core of practice ability, innovation ability and leadership ability. Based on the first-class medical and health care institutions serving the first-tier cities in China, and the nursing graduate student sources of famous universities in China, the program aims to create high-level nursing talents with international vision of "high quality, thick foundation and strong skills".
Cultivation features:
1. Mentor navigation leading innovation ability cultivation. After enrollment, each student is equipped with two mentors in research and clinical, and they can enter the mentor team in their first year of study, and receive training in innovation ability and clinical thinking through Jitt, PBL and other teaching methods, which is in line with international nursing education. The university-level science and innovation programs cover the whole campus, 70% of students can participate in national and provincial academic competitions, and some students are shortlisted for entrepreneurship competitions at the provincial level and above. Undergraduate students can publish papers and own patents and intellectual property rights. The specialty directions include rehabilitation nursing, geriatric nursing and oncology nursing.
2. Integration of resources promotes the expansion of international vision. Every year, the university conducts regular tuition-free and accommodation-free student exchange programs with Lasauce School of Nursing in Lausanne, Switzerland, HESAV School of Health Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, and 100% of the students who participate in overseas exchanges are granted a variety of scholarships for overseas study at the university and college levels. The overseas exchange rate of students is as high as 65%, and there are many opportunities for students to go abroad for further study after graduation. The College offers a full English nursing program for international students free of charge to undergraduate nursing students.
3. Professional practice promotes core competence. Nursing management, innovative thinking training, international project leadership training and other quality courses are offered to purposefully cultivate students' organizational management skills and leadership. In addition, in order to improve the overall quality of students, the college has built a "medical humanistic literacy training" system, which covers volunteer services, lectures by famous teachers, excellent psychological quality training, arts and sports, and other contents.
Teaching conditions: There are complete professional laboratories, internationalized geriatric nursing laboratories, clinical skills and patient simulation training centers, and professional libraries. There is an internationalized training base of more than 2,000 square meters on campus for geriatric home care, rehabilitation nursing, intensive care and other specialties, and the level of hardware has reached the first-class in China. There are 7 practice and internship bases outside the university, including Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Shanghai First People's Hospital. At the same time, there are abundant innovative practice resources in intelligent medicine, health design, medical equipment and health insurance. The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University was formed by the integration of two Grade 3A general hospitals in Wuxi City, and the new hospital area with more than 2,000 beds is located opposite to the east gate of the university with an investment of nearly 3 billion dollars. It is currently a national drug clinical trial facility, a former Ministry of Health clinical pharmacist training base, and a national standardized training base for resident physicians, with first-class modern medical facilities and first-class clinical faculty.
Main Courses: The courses cover many aspects of medical foundation, nursing, nursing humanities, international nurses, and innovation and entrepreneurship. It mainly includes human anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, pathobiology, health assessment, nursing fundamentals, internal medicine nursing, surgical nursing, obstetrics and gynecology nursing, pediatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, community nursing and nursing ethics.
Graduation: The social demand for nursing majors is very large, and nurses not only serve in medical institutions at all levels, but also go to kindergartens, schools, hospitals, and organizations to serve the healthy population. Especially boys are major hospitals, special departments, such as ICU, emergency centers, orthopedics as the most popular talent and priority hiring. Our graduates are mainly employed in hospitals, foreign-funded health industry groups, foreign registered nurses, schools, and prestigious domestic and foreign universities for further study. Students who graduate with an overall GPA ranking in the top 50% and meet the basic requirements for admission to the national master's program are given priority for admission to our nursing master's program, and outstanding master's students have the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree in nursing abroad.
Cultivation effect: the graduation rate, degree conferment rate and passing rate of nursing licensing examination of our nursing graduates have all reached 100%, 20% of the students are admitted to 985 domestic and foreign universities to study for master's degree every year, and 10% of the students are pursuing further study and employment overseas. Every year, the passing rate of International Registered Nurse Examination reaches 100%, 60% of the students are employed in the top 50 hospitals in China, and more than 90% of the students are employed in the first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Tianjin and so on. In recent years, we have participated in many provincial and national competitions, and our nursing undergraduate students have won the silver medal in the "Youth Creation" Jiangsu Province Student Entrepreneurship Competition.