1. Training objective: This major cultivates high-quality technical and skilled nursing talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, who love nursing, meet the needs of the development of medical and health services, have basic nursing theories, basic knowledge and basic skills, and have the core professional ability, interpersonal skills, sustainable development ability and good professional ethics of nursing specialty, and are qualified for nursing posts for the elderly.
2. Employment direction: All kinds of old-age care institutions, community health service centers, medical and health institutions and health care institutions are engaged in nursing, health management, rehabilitation and education for the elderly.
3. Examable certificates: national nurse qualification certificate, occupational type certificate of elderly nurses, BLS-P certificate of American Heart Association (AHA), etc.
4. Continuing education mode: Graduates can apply for full-time undergraduate programs of corresponding majors organized by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education (subject to the Implementation Rules for Undergraduate Programs in Zhejiang Province in the year of graduation).