In recent years, the number of nurses in China has increased by hundreds of thousands every year. The data shows that by the end of 20 19, the total number of nurses in China reached 4.45 million, and the number of nurses per thousand population reached 3. 18, both twice that of 20 10, and the proportion of nurses with college education or above exceeded 70%.

"At present, the number, professional quality and ability level of nurses in China can basically meet the development of health care and the health needs of the people." Wu Xinjuan said that in the rescue work in COVID-19, a strong and professional team of nurses played a vital role in responding to public health emergencies, improving the cure rate of patients, reducing the mortality rate, and giving patients psychological and humanistic care.

However, Wu Xinjuan also said that during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, China will enter a stage of moderate aging, and chronic diseases and geriatric diseases will gradually become the focus of management prevention and control. However, there is a huge gap between medical care services and home-based care for the elderly, and the number of nurses working in communities and grassroots units is still insufficient;

At the same time, the epidemic situation in COVID-19 once again reminds us that new and sudden infectious diseases will continue to appear, and the professional ability of nurses in intensive care and infectious disease care needs to be further improved.

In addition, the allocation of medical service resources is unreasonable between the eastern and western regions, between large urban hospitals and primary medical service institutions. "Places or posts that are in urgent need of nursing talents cannot recruit nurses because of low treatment and uncertain development prospects; In big cities and hospitals, competition is fierce and it is not easy to find employment. "

Wu Xinjuan said that this requires the state to comprehensively consider policy guidance, human resources protection, job training and ability improvement, and salary improvement.

Professional core courses and employment direction:

Human anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, health assessment, basic nursing, internal medicine nursing, surgical nursing, obstetrics and gynecology nursing, pediatric nursing, emergency nursing, community nursing, geriatric nursing, psychiatric nursing and nursing management.

After graduation, students can engage in related nursing work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, community medical service centers, health management institutions, medical treatment, epidemic prevention, medical colleges and other units.

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