The School of Nursing, formerly known as the Department of Nursing at the First Military Medical University of PLA, got its current name in June 2005. At present, it consists of four departments (clinical nursing department, community and geriatric nursing department, midwifery department, humanities and mental nursing department) and three centers (nursing and midwifery experimental center, nursing and midwifery evidence-based center, international nursing exchange and training center).
The School was the first to confer Master’s Degree of Nursing in South China and now it is a unit authorized to confer the degrees of Bachelor, Master and Doctor. With nursing as the state specialty, the School also has the first post-doctoral station for nursing in Guangdong Province. In 2010, the School was authorized by the Ministry of Education as one of the pilot experimental sites for undergraduate nursing specialty, and in 2011, it became one of the first authorized schools to confer the doctor degree of nursing in China. In 2016, the School became the first global cooperator with International Center for Evidence-Based Practice of Australia Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) in South China and in 2017 one of the pilot schools to offer undergraduate program of midwifery. In the fourth round of assessment for nursing discipline, the School ranked B. In 2019, nursing specialty was selected by the Ministry of Education as one of the first national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, and midwifery was selected by the Ministry of Education as one of the first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites of Guangdong. The School has a national standardized training base for midwives, a provincial experimental teaching center of nursing, and three provincial teaching teams of nursing, midwifery, and humanities. As the editor-in-chief, the school teachers have edited three text books, which were selected into the 13th Five-Year Plan of the National Health Commission. The School has won three second prizes of Guangdong teaching achievements.
There are 84 full-time teachers, of whom 56.0% are professors or associate professors. One teacher is listed in Cultivation Project of “Thousand Hundred Ten” in Guangdong Province, and two are honored as “Excellent Teachers of Guangdong”. The research directions include oncologic nursing and chronic care, community and elderly nursing, humanistic and spiritual nursing, perinatal/midwifery nursing.
In the past five years, the School has achieved remarkable achievements in teaching research. Our teachers have presided over 311 scientific research projects, including 124 national and provincial-level research projects, with a total research fund of RMB 209.3 million. 29 teaching and research awards at provincial level and above were achieved, and 1,341 papers have been published, of which 90 papers were published in SCI journals, 160 papers were published in core journals identified by Peking University. The School has also obtained 365 authorized patents, among which 13 national invention patents.
Over the past five years, our students have won more than 50 awards of provincial level and above, including the Challenge Cup Competition, the Clinical Skills Competition, the First Aid Skills Competition, the Experiment Skills Competition of Preventive Medicine, the Competition of Innovative Entrepreneurship, etc. Furthermore, 52 papers have been published by the undergraduates during their school years.
The School has established friendly cooperative relations with universities such as the University of Coventry in UK, the University of Iowa in USA, and Queensland University of Science and Technology in Australia. At the same time, a large number of outstanding graduates have been sent to the hospitals in United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and other countries, as well as the hospitals in Hong Kong and Macao of China.
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