Care Professionals And School-based Vocational Curriculum Reform

With the changes of ideas towards health and the medical modes, nursing in 21st century is more and more focused on the understanding of the concepts such as human, health, environment, nursing care, education and learning. Nurses'working field is also getting increasingly expanded and complicated. So in order to keep pace with nursing development and social demand, it is essential for the nursing professionals to have better expertise and extensive related knowledge,which creates the new requirements in the standards and quality of training the nursing talents. Furthermore, in recent years more importance attached to the vocational education and the rapid development of higher vocational education bring new challenges and opportunities to the nursing education.The core of nursing education reform is its curriculum reform. Curriculum is an important carrier of nursing education and bridges the macroscopic educational concepts with the teaching practice. It plays a key role in achieving the education goals, completing the education tasks and selecting appropriate teaching methods. The current curriculum of nursing around the world can be classified into 3 types: subject-based nursing curriculum, comprehensive nursing curriculum and competence-based nursing curriculum. Most of the colleges in our country adopt the first type in higher nursing education.This research is to analyze the current nursing curriculum of Shanghai Z Vocational and Technical College based on the international background of higher vocational nursing education by means of literature study, comparison method, questionnaire and interview. In addition, the advanced ideas of higher nursing education home and abroad and the advice given by nursing teachers, graduates, nursing supervisors in hospitals and clinical preceptors will be taken as reference. Finally, some ideas and advice on the reform of nursing curriculum in our college will be put forward.The research finds out that the current nursing curriculum in Shanghai Z Vocational and Technical College is not able to display the characteristics of nursing and such problems as out-of-date curriculum setting modes, over-loaded theoretical courses, lack of humanities and society education also exist. Besides, compared with secondary vocational nursing education and other formal schooling, its targets level is not clearly set and then loses its advantages over others. The thesis emphasizes that the solution to the above problems should firstly based on a definite training target and requirements for the post and attach more importance to the nursing practice, community and humanities centered in people's health. In this thesis, the ways to improve the quality of nursing education are proposed to improve the competitiveness of nursing students and thus satisfy the social needs of nursing professionals, which include changing curriculum setting modes, innovating teaching methods, adjusting the proportion of different subjects, etc.