Shaping modern nursing development in China before 1949

• 作者: Jiang Yuhong
• 来源期刊: 国际护理科学（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（1）
• 页码范围: 19-23
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Nursing becoming a respectable,decent profession for educated Chinese women was a challenging undertaking.The early advancement of nursing in China was a collective effort of the missionary medicine,the private foundations,and the endurance,dedication and hardworking of the Chinese as well as foreign nurses.Western missionary introduced modern nursing in China and laid the preliminary foundation for its development,while the upgrading of nursing education from training to higher learning was a contribution by the School of Nursing Peking Union Medical College (PUMC),envisioned and supported by the China Medical Board.Its state-of-the-art and visionary education model,the high standard and the initiatives in public health nursing,and the heroic and patriotic military nursing created by the PUMC's outstanding graduates produced a cohort of leaders in nursing education and profession in China before 1949.All these efforts acting together shaped the modern nursing in China,leaving a great heritage to nursing education and practice to New China.