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Several nurses said in interviews that they were generally "understaffed".
"Whether it's day or night, as long as I go to work, the surgeries are one after another, non-stop." Li Mu (pseudonym), a nurse in the anesthesiology department of a tertiary hospital in Beijing, said.
Ms. Chen, who works at another tertiary hospital in Beijing, also complained that a department of her hospital is also short of staff, with more than 20 beds in the ward and only 10 nurses at most.
According to the "Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Public Hospitals" issued by the General Office of the State Council, it is proposed to increase the allocation of nurses and gradually make the overall ratio of medical care in public hospitals reach about 1:2. However, judging from the 2023 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Communiqué, at the end of 2023, there were 12.47 million health technicians in the country, including 4.78 million licensed physicians and licensed assistant physicians, and 5.63 million registered nurses.
Yao Huaifang, a member of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chief physician of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that this shows that the number of nurses in the mainland is very large. Based on these data, the national shortage of nurses is close to 4 million.
Deng Liqiang, executive director of the China Health Law Society and deputy director of Beijing Huawei Law Firm, suggested that the training of nursing staff should be increased, the treatment of nurses should be improved, the sense of professional honor should be enhanced, the financial expenditure on the medical industry should be increased, and the charging standards for nursing projects should be reformulated, including the standard of self-paid nursing care and the nursing standard of the medical insurance catalog, so that the labor of nurses can be matched with the income, and the staffing of nurses should be implemented.
Nursing majors can be subdivided into nursing and midwifery majors
Due to the large shortage of medical staff in mainland China, nursing is one of the popular employment majors in the medical industry, and its subordinate subspecialties are mainly nursing and midwifery.
There are 15 colleges and universities in the country that set up such majors, and Henan and Hubei tied for the first place
At present, there are 15 colleges and universities in the country that offer nursing majors, of which Henan and Hubei provinces have the largest number, with 3 each, accounting for 20% of the country; followed by Jilin, Zhejiang and Inner Mongolia, with 2 respectively, accounting for 13.33%, tied for second.
Among the subdivided majors, the number of colleges and universities offering nursing majors is the largest, reaching 270; There are 227 colleges and universities that offer midwifery majors, mainly junior colleges. From the perspective of regional distribution, Hubei Province, Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province have more colleges and universities offering nursing majors, accounting for 20.75% of the total.
Note: Since some universities in mainland China implement the system of first entering the major majors and then subdividing the majors, while most colleges and universities still implement the mode of directly entering the subdivided majors for teaching, the number of colleges and universities that open major majors in the statistics is small and different from the number of colleges and universities that offer subdivided majors.
Comprehensive universities and medical colleges each have representative universities
In terms of representative institutions, based on the quality of colleges and universities offering nursing majors across the country and the social recognition of graduates, the universities that offer nursing majors are evaluated and ranked as follows:
The results showed that in addition to medical schools such as Peking Union Medical College, key comprehensive universities such as Peking University, Fudan University and Central South University also performed well in nursing majors.
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