West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, founded in 1915, is one of the earliest institutions to establish and provide higher nursing education in China. It is one of the only two “Double First-Class Initiative”. Our school is one of the first group of academic institutions which were awarded the doctoral degree program, a post-doctoral research station, and a first-class undergraduate course construction station. Since the construction of our nursing as a “Double First-Class Initiative”, it has made great efforts to build the peak of nursing education with the goal of building a world-class nursing，and has achieved remarkable achievements.
West China School of Nursing was approved by China’s Ministry of Education as one of the first group of National First-Class Undergraduate Course Construction Stations in 2019. Our nursing program ranked the first in China’s “Science and Technology Evaluation Metrics” for four consecutive years. Moreover, the nursing program also ranked the first in the Best Chinese Subjects Rankings by Shanghai Ranking in 2020. In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, the nursing program entered the world’s Top 150.
Perfect the system and make breakthroughs in teaching reform.
West China School of Nursing has established a lifelong education system covering “degree education, post-graduation education, and continuing education”, and has cultivated a large number of excellent nursing talents. Specifically, our school has produced more than 10,000 graduates from bachelor/master/doctor programs and incubated postdoctoral fellows for both China and Pakistan. We have established the disaster nursing program in China and a system for training master-doctoral-postdoctoral disaster nursing talents, leading high-level talent training in the field of disaster nursing in China. Under the leadership of university, we started with the teaching reform characterized by “inquiry-based classroom teaching and small class teaching”, and conscientiously carried out Sichuan University’s practice of first-class undergraduate education through “all-element classroom teaching reform, non-standardized academic evaluation in the whole process, promotion of personalized training by all methods, strengthening teaching and education among all faculty members, and increasing teaching input in an all-round way”. As one of the main contributing subjects, our nursing program won the first provincial and ministerial Teaching Achievement Award. Our program entitled “Sichuan University’s practice of first-class undergraduate education taking classroom teaching reform as a breakthrough” initiative won the special award of National Teaching Achievement. Our students have won many honors such as “Chinese University Students of the Year” and “Gold Award of China’s “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
Push forward scientific research and education, and enhance the capacity for technological innovation in nursing.
Over the past five years, the funds for the provincial and ministerial research projects presided over by post-doctors and graduate students have exceeded 4 million. We have published papers in renowned international journals such asJAMA Internal Medicineand theInternational Journal of Nursing Studieswith the highest impact factor reaching 20.768. Besides, we have also been awarded several national invention patents.
Build an academic platform and gather international resources.
Our School has established long-term partnerships with international well-known universities and institutions such as Mayo Medical School and Oxford University. Relying on the University of Washington and other famous universities, we have established the West China Overseas Center integrating medicine, teaching and research to provide an overseas basis for graduate education. We have been vigorously implementing projects such as the “Short-term Oversea Study Project for Postgraduates at Sichuan University” and the “Dachuan Vision” student oversea visit program, and have provided subsidies to each postgraduate for their overseas exchange or study. Several postgraduate students were awarded scholarships by China Scholarship Council, went to study in the collaborative programs or engage in postdoctoral research at such famous universities such as McMaster University in Canada and Washington University in the United States. More than 100 graduate students made oral presentations at international conferences. Besides, our student won the Best Speaker Award and Excellent Wall Newspaper Award at the 21st East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars.
Strive to educate students through practice and improve students’ overall quality.
Our nursing program adheres to the principle of “fostering virtue through education” and encourages scientific and technological innovation to cultivate outstanding nursing talents characterized by all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetic sense and labor skills. We have made remarkable achievements in implementing the Five Ways of Life. Our students have won several education achievements, such as the “National Scholarship”, “Class A Certificate of Comprehensive Quality of College Students in Sichuan Province”, “Outstanding Graduates of Sichuan Province”, “Champion of the Chinese University Basketball League (Sichuan area)”, Award of the University Sports Dance Competition as well as College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Plan. Moreover, our students won the“Gold Award of China’s “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the grand prize and first prize of the China Graduate Contest on Smart-city Technology and Creative Design.
The nursing program of Sichuan University has been developing rapidly in recent years. It has gradually developed into a superior discipline with “Chinese characteristics, Sichuan University style, and the West China School of Nursing brand” in the course of cultural inheritance and innovation as well as program development. Focusing on program construction, West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University is committed to cultural progress, nursing education, nursing research, supporting platforms, international cooperation and social reputation. Up to now, it has established a framework for cultivating high-caliber talents with the strong support of 4 hospitals and 15 teaching and research sections; created a program construction framework comprising the head nurses of department, the head nurses of specialties, and the deputy head nurses of specialties; and fostered a new force for the development of nursing through integration, innovation and inheritance. In the new era, West China School of Nursing is embracing the major mission of nursing discipline development with the fullest enthusiasm and the greatest tolerance.
