The Reviews And Outlook Of Higher Nursing Education Research In China

Based on pedagogy and nursing-related theories, the article summarizes and analyses the developments and lacks of higher nursing education after the Reform of Higher Education. Using the experiences on nursing educations of other countries for reference, it puts forward the train of thought on the future reform of nursing education in our country in the new century, providing a theoretical reference on the higher education reform and its development in the future.Referring to the Chinese Journal of Nursing (from 1983 to 2004), The Applied Journal of Nursing (from 1985 to 2004), The Journal of Advanced Nursing (from 1986 to 2004), the Journal of Nursing (from 1986 to 2004) and Nursing Research (from 1988 to 2004), the author chose 209 articles on research of higher nursing education. With the methods of literature, investigation, historical, comparison and other, the author makes a through summary and analysis of the development of educating objects, curriculum setting, contents for teaching, teaching methods, clinical practice and faculty construct etc. For some historical reasons, our higher nursing education had been halted for more than 30 years, resulted in very low development lagging behind other developed countries. The 21st Century is a century of bionomic science. In this new century, more and more importance is being put on life and good life quality is being pursued, which makes it trendof the human being to keep healthy and self-care. It becomes inevitable to develop higher nursing education to raise high-quality nursing talents and meet the demands of the society development. With the China' s entry to WTO, the higher education also has access to the international educational market, and directly participates in the competition of international education, has started its way of internationalism. Therefore, we should stick to nationalize our higher nursing education, develop our conventional medical education. Only the model of higher nursing education with Chinese characteristic is established, and a mature systematic project of high level nursing talents gradually comes into being, can we stand victoriously all the way.