The School of Nursing, Tongji Medical College of HUST is originated from the Advanced Vocational School of Nursing founded in 1936 by Paulun, and was formally established on April 5, 2001, with 52 full-time staff at the time. In June 2008, it initiated English Nurse Major in China with the vision to foster top notch of nursing discipline featured by all courses taught in English to pursue this endeavor. Now it has developed into a comprehensive school comprising a variety of specialties and majors in nursing education covering undergraduate to master and doctor 3 levels with 458 students (statistics in 2023). 

By drawing on the experience and strengths of nursing education at home and abroad, the School of Nursing proactively performed comprehensive reform on curriculum system, teaching content and approaches. After years of exploration and pilot practice, it has optimized 3-level education covering vocational, undergraduate, graduate and 2 types of comprehensive training for young and adult students. The undergraduate education comprises 2 majors, namely 4-year All-English Nursing and 4-year General Nursing.

All-English Nursing is a key major at HUST and the first one with all courses taught in English nationwide. After entering the school, students will labor on medical courses for the 1st to 2nd year and accept clinical training on 3rd year. All the basic medical courses and clinical internship are taught in English, which facilitate students to be equipped with adequate language aptitude and international horizon, as well as a solid professional foundation and clinical operating skills. The graduates are supposed to be competent to work in high education institutions or large comprehensive hospitals.

The continuing education conducts amateur nursing education, junior nurses upgrading education as well as non-academic education. The School of Nursing highly encourages and rewards teaching reform and scientific research; in the past decade, its scientific teams have undertaken nearly 20 research projects at the provincial level and school level, and won the second prizes at the provincial level twice.

In recent years, the School of Nursing gave priority to upgrade its disciplines and build up new strengths in nursing education, and sorted out nursing education, community nursing and psychiatric care as its characteristic subjects. Five training centers have been constructed and a number of modern laboratories set up in association with basic nursing, internal medicare, surgical care, obstetrics and obstetrics, pediatric care and first aid etc.. Physical Training Center and Self-learning Center have been equipped with advanced teaching model and facilities. All contributed to forming an integrated, multifunctional, open-end and digital nursing professional training center.

To keep pace with the times, the School of Nursing of TJMC made every effort to pursue internationalization. So far, it has maintained close ties with Kanazawa Medical University in Japan, Johns Hopkins University, Arizona State University and the University of Michigan etc.in U.S.A., the University of West Sydney and Sydney University of Science and Technology in Australia, Hong Kong Polytechnic University，University of Birmingham and  The University of Manchester in UK etc. Under the framework of intercollegiate agreements, various exchanges and cooperation regarding joint-schooling, scientific research, staff and students mobility as well as talents fostering are performed. Since 2004, numerous teachers and students have exchanged abroad.

The School of Nursing  is committed to cultivating high-level and excellent nursing talents that are in line with international standards and needs of the country, continuously strengthening the quality and effectiveness of teaching, and setting up international courses around the characteristics of English teaching; innovating teaching methods, using MOOCs and flipping classrooms to improve their ability Oriented teaching system; increase the construction of nursing laboratories, equipped with advanced high-end comprehensive simulator, multi-functional nursing bed, advanced computer cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other advanced equipment and multimedia teaching facilities to provide excellent conditions for professional skills teaching; More than 10 first-class large-scale comprehensive clinical teaching bases such as Tongji Hospital ensure excellent clinical teaching quality.

As a Chinese proverb goes, “If You Want to Go Faster, Walk Alone; If You Want to Go Further, Walk Together”. The School of Nursing of TJMC of HUST welcomes and is seeking for more international partners, to set up more international platforms, to facilitate more practical international projects, and work for win-win outcome by drawing on each other’s strength.