Professional characteristics: This major takes the cultivation of high-skilled elderly nursing professionals with market shortage and social urgent needs, good professional quality, profound humanistic heritage, solid professional knowledge and strong nursing skills as its own responsibility, and has distinctive industry characteristics, distinctive characteristics of the times, and distinctive characteristics of school-enterprise cooperation. The nursing (geriatric care) major of the School of Nursing and Health was rated as a backbone major by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
Training objectives: This major cultivates moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor all-round development, with the basic knowledge of humanities and social sciences, medicine, preventive health care, clinical nursing, geriatric nursing basic theoretical knowledge and skills, as well as modern nursing concepts and self-development potential. Can successfully pass the national nurse practitioner qualification certificate examination and the elderly care worker post qualification certificate examination. High-quality and practical nursing professionals engaged in clinical nursing, community nursing and health care in elderly care institutions, rehabilitation medical institutions, geriatric specialized clinical medical institutions, etc. at all levels of medical, preventive, health care, and medical-nursing care institutions.
Development prospects: Chinese aging structure has entered the aging stage, the major will focus on highlighting the characteristics of nursing professional training, which is compatible with the needs of international and domestic social development and the shortage of talents, and the job market is very broad. The employment rate of graduates of this major in 2019 is 100%.
Main courses: Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Basic Nursing, Internal Medicine Nursing, Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Rehabilitation Therapy, Nursing Psychology, Nursing Etiquette and Interpersonal Communication, Geriatric Health Assessment, Prevention and Health Care of Common Geriatric Diseases, Geriatric Welfare System, Geriatric Nursing, Geriatric Health Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Community Nursing, Case Analysis of Japanese and Taiwan Elderly Care Institutions, etc.
Vocational skill certificate: national nurse practitioner qualification certificate, health manager and other skill certificates, elderly care vocational skill level certificate.
Employment direction: clinical nursing positions in various medical and health institutions at all levels (such as internal medicine wards, surgical wards, operating rooms, ICU, emergency department, etc.), geriatric rehabilitation nursing institutions, geriatric specialist clinical medical institutions, various domestic and foreign elderly health promotion institutions, physical examination centers, etc. engaged in clinical nursing and health management.
