Department I: Four-year All-English Nursing

Objectives：

This program aims to equip the students with adequate English aptitude and international horizon, as well as solid professional foundation and clinical operating skills. The graduates will be competent to work in higher education institutions or large provincial hospitals. The ultimate purpose is to cultivate top talents specialized in modern nursing in line with international standards.

Requirements:

As the key major in HUST and the first one with all courses taught in English in China, students will spend their first whole year learning English, and thereafter laboring on medical courses for the 2nd to 4th year. All the basic medical courses and clinical internship are taught in English. Students will be trained to grasp English and lay a solid foundation in basic and clinical nursing. They are required to master nursing principles and clinical operating skills, meanwhile, to know the basic knowledge of emergency, common and frequently-occurring diseases, difficult and sever diseases, to grasp skills of special nursing and guardianship, to be able to perform nursing teaching and scientific research in higher-education institutions, and to conduct nursing management in hospitals and communities etc.

Stem Subjects:Nursing, Clinical Medicine

Main Courses Set-up:

After entering the school, students will spend first whole year learning English, to be proficient in reading, listening, speaking and writing. Other major courses includes Computer Science, Human Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Basic Nursing, Internal and Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics and Pediatric Nursing, Community Nursing, First-aid Nursing, Medical Psychology, Nursing Management etc. All above courses are taught in English.

Job Choices after Graduation:

Teaching or researching in colleges/universities and medical research institutions; Working in large comprehensive hospitals as clinical nurses, clinical nursing teachers, nursing management staff etc.. To go abroad as high-end nursing talents on the basis that most developed western countries like U.S., Canada, Australia, Singapore, all have large demands in the associated professions.

Department II: Four-year General Nursing

Objectives：

The program aims to cultivate high-level nursing talents equipped with solid professional foundation and clinical operating skills

Requirements:

Students are required to grasp the basic and clinical medical knowledge as well as a solid professional foundation and clinical operating skills, They are required to master nursing principles and clinical operating skills, to know the basic knowledge of emergency, common and frequently-occurring diseases, difficult and sever diseases, to grasp skills of special nursing and guardianship, to be able to perform nursing teaching and scientific research, and to conduct elementary nursing management in hospitals and communities etc.

Main Courses Set-up:

Computer Science, Human Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Basic Nursing, Internal and Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics and Pediatric Nursing, Community Nursing, First-aid Nursing, Medical Psychology, Nursing Management etc. Some courses are taught bilingually.

Job-Choice after Graduation:

Teachers or researchers in colleges and universities and medical research institutions; nurses associated with clinical nursing in large comprehensive hospitals.