Geriatric nursing specialty

Nursing (nursing direction for the aged) is a new specialty in our school and a branch of nursing specialty. This major cultivates the ability to adapt to the new situation of social aging and strengthen community health construction. On the basis of the training goal of clinical nursing talents, strengthen the ability to engage in elderly rehabilitation nursing in medical institutions at all levels and community elderly service institutions (nurseries and nursing homes), including specialized nursing for elderly diseases, family rehabilitation nursing for elderly chronic diseases and community nursing services for the elderly. Cultivate high-quality skilled nursing talents with good professional ethics, a certain sense of seeking truth from facts and innovation, and modern nursing concepts, who can use basic nursing technology, clinical nursing technology, community nursing technology and geriatric nursing technology to engage in clinical nursing and geriatric nursing work in medical institutions at all levels and community service institutions for the elderly at all levels.

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).