Nursing
Introduction
Our Department was established in 1999. We are recruiting both male and female students through various routes, such as University Entrance Examination and nomination from high schools. We offer a four-year program. Graduates will be awarded Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BS in Nursing).
Teaching and Research
Teaching:
Our program is comprehensive and future oriented to follow the trend of health and nursing care closely. The total credits for graduation are 144 including 22 requirements (common), 98 requirements (basic medicine and professional nursing), 14 professional electives, and 10 general education credits (please see Table 1 for our curriculum).
Each regular size class will have 55 students. Only one class will be admitted each year. Under certain circumstances, students will be divided into smaller groups for better learning results. Our education goals are: a.Provide a holistic nursing education program, which is aimed to equip our graduates to be able to provide holistic care (also called whole person total care) toward their clients from physical, psychological, social, and spiritual approaches.
b.Educate student to have professional knowledge of nursing, and develop philosophy of nursing for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
c.Offer healthcare/nursing management and policy courses for students to obtain ability in management and leadership as well as getting familiar with the social environment.
Research:
Our goal is to get more research funding from the National Science Council and Health Care Council in the Executive Yuan .Our research focuses can be categorized into the following areas: holistic care, nursing informatics, community health, nursing delivery and systems, preventive medicine, and infection and immunity.
Faculty:
We have 10 well-prepared full-time faculty members (please see Table 2 for more detail information):seven of them are nursing specialists who are registered nurses; the other three hold Ph.D. degrees in the areas of basic medicine, pharmacy, and immunology. More than 20 part-time faculty members from the other departments
and nearby medical centers are participating in our teaching activities. As a new program, we have really strong faculty. For better teaching quality, more doctorate-prepared nursing faculty members, like in the areas of pediatric, psychiatric and obstetric and gynecologic nursing, will be hired in the near future. At this moment, the specialties of our nursing faculties cover the fields of medical-surgical nursing, community nursing, nursing administration, nursing education, home health care, preventive medicine, and basic medicine.
Future Development Directions
1.Provide excellent learning atmosphere for quality
learning, including well-equipped laboratories, and medical center units
for clinical classes.
2.Provide nursing knowledge and services for our communities to make
good use of the community's resources.
3.Build close collaborative relationship with healthcare institutions
and universities
in southern Taiwan.
4.Establish academic relationship in the areas of research and teaching
with foreign universities for continuous enhancement of our knowledge in
nursing
Career Development
Graduates from the nursing department would get enough professional nursing skills and medical knowledge. After obtaining licenses, they could get employed as clinical nurses in hospitals, community health nurses, school or factory nurses, nurse teachers. They would be capable to manage a nursing home or nursing postpartum institution after some clinical experiences. Certainly, they can choose to pursue higher degrees in the related fields, such as nursing or life science in domestic or foreign graduate schools.
