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Baccalaureate nursing education curricula in the People’s Republic of China: Status, issues and reforms
Author(s) -
Sun Jiemin,
Xu Yu,
Xu Zhaomin,
Zhang Jianhui
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1046/j.1442-2018.2001.00092.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , china , nurse education , politics , curriculum mapping , medical education , ideology , ideal (ethics) , nursing , curriculum development , medicine , political science , sociology , pedagogy , law
This article examines baccalaureate nursing education curricula in the People’s Republic of China. Three 5‐year curricula and one 4‐year curriculum were content analyzed and contrasted. Findings of this study suggested that: (i) the biomedical model dominated the three 5‐year traditional curricula; (ii) political‐ideological content permeated all four curricula; and (iii) the reformed curriculum at Peking Union Medical College was a genuine effort toward building a new nursing curriculum model that intended to differentiate nursing education from medical education. In addition, major themes of recent curriculum reforms were highlighted. Recommendations were suggested to improve the outcomes of future curriculum endeavors. Explicit as well as implicit comparisons with an ideal–typical American generic baccalaureate nursing curriculum were made when appropriate.