Jiangnan University’s Nursing was established in January 1997. The discipline includes seven teaching and research offices: Basic Nursing, Geriatric Nursing, Internal Medicine Nursing, Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing, Pediatric Nursing and Medical Humanities. It also includes a Nursing Skills Training Center, an innovative Nursing Research Center and a Geriatric Health Science and Technology Research Center. In 2021, the Nursing major was granted provincial-level first-class undergraduate construction status. The discipline has seven provincial-level Specialist Nurse Training and Practice Bases and one Clinical Teaching Internship Base affiliated with the Chinese Nursing Association.
Nursing offers a first-level master’s program. Starting in 2017, it began admitting academic-oriented postgraduates, and in 2019, it started enrolling professional postgraduates. So far, 279 Nursing masters have been enrolled. It has 60 full-time teachers and 51 teachers with senior titles. There are 42 masters’ supervisors, one academician of the American Academy of Nursing Sciences, three members of the Wuxi Double Hundred Talent Plan (reserve one), and three high-end talent teams in Taihu Lake.
Nursing has clear strengths and characteristics. It focuses on theoretical and translational research related to rehabilitation interventions for chronic diseases and remote digital management. It also explores long-term care insurance assessment, care service models and standards. The discipline has established research laboratories, including the Chronic Disease Management and Rehabilitation Nursing Research Lab, the Oncology Nursing Research Lab, and the Elderly Intelligent Nursing Research Lab. It possesses distinctive immersive rehabilitation nursing and intelligent home-based seniors care simulation laboratories, high-intelligence comprehensive nursing simulation manikins for children, adults, and pregnant and parturient women, along with a remote OSCE nursing skills assessment platform. The discipline collaborates with the Wuxi Civil Affairs Bureau in jointly constructing the Research Center for Elderly Health Science and Technology. It also maintains ongoing student exchanges and research cooperation with universities such as HESAV University in Switzerland, Lasauce School of Nursing, and the School of Nursing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Relying on Jiangnan University’s “Double First-Class” disciplines in Food Science and Technology, A+ level Design Discipline, distinctive Artificial Intelligence disciplines, and the affiliated hospital with the leading Burns surgery in China, the Nursing discipline conducts research with a distinctive Jiangnan style. This research covers areas such as digital rehabilitation nursing for elderly individuals with foodborne chronic diseases, nutrition support for cancer patients, nursing research on chronic inflammatory microbiota transplantation, AI-assisted long-term care, and wound care. In the past five years, the discipline has undertaken six National Natural Science Foundation projects (including three general projects and three youth projects), 37 research projects at the provincial and municipal levels, and two international cooperation projects. It consistently strives to serve human health, meet national major strategic needs, support the development of the healthcare industry and AI nursing in the Yangtze River Delta, and contribute to the enhancement of healthcare standards in Wuxi.
