Nursing pedagogy is a professional course completed in the third semester of nursing baccalaureate program in Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Nursing.

The aim of the course is to validate the students to develop comprehensive competencies for nursing education, including education and basic theories, teaching methods and skills of nursing education.

The main content of the course includes the goal system of nursing education, the psychological basis of nursing teaching, nursing teaching process and principles, and the organization of nursing teaching Forms, methods, and media of nursing teaching, nursing teaching evaluation, etc.

The characteristics of the course is to apply narrative and PBL to present Chinese nursing educational stories, enhance students’ understanding of nursing and nursing education, and encourage teachers to listen to students' voices and achieve mutual learning in teaching.

• 2.0 credits (34 credit hours)

• Lecture: 19 credit hours

• PBL: 9 credit hours

• Lab/Clinical: 4 credit hours

• Implementation: Fall semester for secondary year

Adult Nursing is one of the main courses in the core curriculum of the nursing program, and is also a compulsory course for undergraduate nursing students. This course is "health-centered", with nursing process as the framework. It blurs the boundaries of traditional disciplines, integrates internal medicine and surgical nursing, and focuses on solving clinical nursing problems. In addition, following the selection and arrangement of important knowledge and optimal assembly of contents, a teaching technique based on theory, probation, and scenario simulation is used to promote the comprehensiveness, depth, and solidity of knowledge mastery.

Adult Nursing consists of Adult Nursing Ⅰ and Adult Nursing Ⅱ. Adult Nursing Ⅰ consists of 110 credit hours and total 6.5 course credits. The content of Adult Nursing I consists of four systems: introduction, circulatory system, nervous system and endocrine system, and the content of each system specifically includes etiology and pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, diagnosis, treatment and nursing of common diseases of each system. The course requires students to apply nursing processes to give holistic nursing care to patients, as well as monitor patients’ conditions, evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention, and collaborate in emergency and critical care, in order to alleviate pain, promote recovery, and maintain health for patients.

This course aims to enable students to master the basic theoretical knowledge and skills of adult nursing systematically and comprehensively, and to cultivate the basic literacy related to the curriculum. The course also focuses on the application in clinical nursing practice, laying a solid foundation for students to study related courses and enter clinical study and practice.

Adult Nursing Ⅱ is part of Adult Nursing course, and is one of the core courses of the undergraduate nursing program, which was approved as “first-class undergraduate course of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021”. This course is following the lifecycle model, with nursing process as the framework. It blurs the boundaries of traditional disciplines, integrates internal medicine and surgical nursing, and focuses on clinical nursing problems. The course consists of 6 systems: digestive system, respiratory system, urinary system and hematologic system and etc., and the content of each system specifically includes etiology and pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, diagnosis, treatment and nursing of common diseases of each system. In addition, following the selection and arrangement of important knowledge and optimal assembly of contents, combined with approach of theory teaching, MOOC online videos, flipped classroom, Problem-Based Learning, scenario simulation and probation to maintain the contents much pervasively, deeply, and firmly.

Through the study of this course, students can master the basic theoretical knowledge and skills of adult nursing systematically and comprehensively, and cultivate the basic literacy related to the course for students. In addition, this course emphasizes the "combination of online and offline" and "integration of theory and practice", cultivating students' clinical thinking and comprehensive analysis and problem-solving abilities, laying a solid foundation for students to study related courses and enter clinical study and internship. Meanwhile, the course incorporates ideological and political elements into teaching and offer "one case of ideological and political in each class" to enhance the ideological and political literacy and professional ideal for medical and nursing students.

Pediatric Nursing is a compulsory course for undergraduate nursing students and consists of 51 credit hours and total 3 course credits. Pediatric Nursing is one of the clinical disciplines of nursing curriculum that focuses on growth and development, physiology, psychology, diseases, and family effects in all stages of the pediatric period. The main contents of the course includes child growth and development, child health care, child nutrition, newborns and care for their diseases, and nursing of nutritional disorder, digestive system, circulatory system, urinary system, hematologic system, nervous system, immune system, and infectious diseases.

As transition of medical model and expanding of nursing fields, the teaching of pediatric nursing follows the model of human-center, adopting nursing process as framework and being based on family care. The course aims to reflect the basic theory, knowledge, and skills of pediatric nursing. It enables students to combine the characteristics of pediatrics, combine theory and practice, improve clinical observation and analysis skills, as well as improve clinical judgment and problem-solving skills.

Nursing is not only an occupation but also a profession. Nursing profession in China is currently undergoing rapid development. What are the challenges and opportunities that clinical nursing practice in our country confronts from an international perspective is a question that every nurse should explore. International Clinical Nursing Practice is a specified nursing optional course in the “Undergraduate Training Program” of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Nursing. This course aims to strengthen students' overall understanding of nursing, improve their professional confidence, and broaden their global perspective, all while providing the groundwork for further career guidance. The course based on clinical apprenticeship on an earlier stage, and each lecturer would introduce development tendency of international clinical nursing practice with their own overseas experience and inspire students to think about the future development path of clinical nursing practice in China. Different teaching and assessment methods (e.g. class lecture, discussion, essay, and final presentation) will be used in this course to stimulate students' learning interest and subjective motivation.

Nurse-patient communication is an interdisciplinary and applied discipline. Based on medicine, philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines. It examines the factors affecting patient health outcomes and the nurse-patient relationship from the perspective of nursing. In addition, it explores the use of therapeutic communication techniques to optimize the patient care experience, improve the nurse-patient relationship, and studies how to integrate psychological and social factors are transformed into active and effective means and methods to promote disease treatment and health maintenance.

Nursing-patient communication is a compulsory course. The course aims to improve the ability of nurse-patient communication of nursing students, through the interaction of disciplines to expand the knowledge system, to promote the improvement of ability through situational practice, to lead the superb pursuit through thinking iteration, and to shape the value of ideology and politics with empathy professional values. It aims to cultivate excellent nursing talents with soul and warmth who can adapt to social development, have empathetic professional values, provide professional medical care, relieve the patient's spiritual suffering, and possess innovative thinking and lifelong learning ability.

The course mainly includes three modules: 1) Basic theories and principles of communication: it consists of philosophy, medicine, sociology, communication, ethics, psychology, law and other theories involving human subjects and interpersonal relationships; 2) strategies of communication in special situations: including communicating with different groups of people (eg, communicating with elderly patients, communicating with children and parents, communicating with cancer patients, etc.) and 3) dealing with sudden communication challenges (eg, dealing with communication conflicts, giving bad news, dealing with patient distrust, etc.), communication and occupational mental health (such as Balint group activities, narrative nurse-patient communication, etc.). The course adopts online and offline mixed teaching, through the combination of theoretical lectures and situational demonstrations, cases and comments, etc., to show students the common doctor-patient communication skills in clinical work from all angles and from multiple perspectives, which will help students master nurse-patient communication skills. The basic skills required for communication are applied in different work scenarios to better gain the understanding, trust and cooperation of patients and their families, and ultimately achieve the goal of mutual benefit and win-win between doctors and patients and the general improvement of people's health.

Nursing Management is a compulsory course for undergraduate nursing students with professional uniqueness, practicality and application under the guidance of management principles. This course adheres to the general goal of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine of cultivating "excellent medical innovation talents with soul”, and focuses on nursing management theory, basic principles and methods. It is also oriented to nursing management practice problems, and combines the current situation, development trends and academic frontiers of nursing management at domestic and international levels. In addition, the course also focuses on the four-in-one training of students' knowledge, ability, quality and value, organically integrate value guidance, knowledge transfer, and ability training, give full play to the function of curriculum education, and implement a hybrid teaching model that combines "online + offline" to continuously improve students' ability to find problems, analyze and judge, and make decisions. The course aims to enable students to master the basic theories and methods of nursing management and be able to analyze and solve practical problems in the field of nursing management. Nursing Management was awarded the first batch of planning course construction project of the China Medical MOOC Alliance in 2015, and it was launched in March 2016 on the platform of PMPHMOOC.COM. Moreover, it was awarded as a national high-quality online open courses in 2018 through the construction of two academic years, and was also approved for the ideological and political construction of Shanghai Jiao tong University School of Medicine courses in the same year. In 2019, the course has been successively selected as excellent blended course demonstration cases for universities of Shanghai and received the FD-QM certification. In 2020, Nursing Management was awarded as a “National (online) First-Class Undergraduate Courses”, which is the first "Golden Course" construction of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Nursing.

The course is designed for full-time undergraduates nursing students. This course aims to enable students to master the requirements for writing academic papers, as well as familiarize themselves with the most basic methods and steps of nursing research, and to lay a solid theoretical and methodological foundation for the future development of various nursing research practices. Nursing research is an important course for nursing program with a total of 36 credit hours. Among them, 34 credit hours of theoretical teaching and 2 credit hours of examination. Theoretical teaching contents includes basic methods and basic steps of scientific research design, methods and processes of collecting, organizing and analyzing of scientific research data, methods and processes of writing and evaluating nursing academic papers, ethical principles in nursing research and application in practice of basic methods of nursing research, etc.

Nursing Ethics is the science about nursing professional ethics. By the usage of general ethical principles to study the development of nursing science, especially the moral consciousness, norms and behavioral sciences of the relationship between nurses and patients, other healthcare professionals, and society in nursing practice. Nursing ethics plays an important guiding role in nursing practice, which is conducive to improving the moral level of nurses and making them to be ethical and capable nurses; it is also conducive to the unification of nursing technology and ethics, and improves the quality of nursing; in addition, it is conducive to nurses solving nursing ethics problems and promote the development of nursing science.

Nursing Psychology course is an important compulsory course for undergraduate nursing students, which is a marginal subject from the cross of nursing and psychology and is a one of the significant main courses of higher nursing education. As a branch of applied psychology, this course focuses on the goal of cultivating undergraduate nursing personnel, highlights professional characteristics and effectively combines traditional nursing psychology content with new theories, new methods, and new technologies. It plays an important role in cultivating the professional psychological quality of nurses, satisfying the clinical nurses to master the systematic theoretical knowledge of nursing psychology and practical skills of clinical psychological nursing. The lecture of this course requires combining theory with practice, which is a close which is a close combination of psychological knowledge and clinical nursing work through multi-form teaching mode, multi-teaching resource support, and ideological and political learning. Through learning the course, students learn to apply the basic theories and methods of psychology and explore the laws of psychological activities of research objects, and solve various psychological problems involved in nursing work. This course focuses on the concepts, objects, and tasks of nursing psychology; the basics of psychological such as cognitive process and personality; mental health; psychological stress; psychosomatic diseases; psychological assessment; psychotherapy and psychological counseling; patient psychology; psychological nursing; and psychology of nurses.

Introduction to Nursing is an important professional basic course to guide students to clarify the basic theory and disciplinary framework of nursing, and to understand nursing and its development trend ever since the course was established. In 2021, the course was approved as a “Shanghai universities municipal key course project”.

The course focuses on the development history of nursing, the nature, basic concepts, basic theories, and basic methods of nursing, the basic skills of nursing work, nursing communication, and the ethics and legal concepts that nurses should always hold in nursing work. It provides nursing students with the basic theories, basic thinking and working methods that they must have to engage in nursing work, cultivates students' good professional quality and professional values, and aims to guide nursing students to have a correct understanding of the nursing profession, establish professional beliefs, and cultivate professional identity, laying the foundation for subsequent courses and career development.

The course adopts "nursing and teaching collaboration" and a multicultural teaching team to give full play to the "dual subject" collaborative education of schools and hospitals, domestic and foreign, and jointly undertake the teaching tasks of students. It is a multi-integrated curriculum. The course features include: firstly, follow the characteristics of nursing students, reflect the distinctive characteristics of nursing, and use narrative education by clinical nurses and patients to help nursing students apply what they have learned, and cultivate emotional, warm, and thoughtful innovative nursing personnel who meet the needs of the new era. Secondly, the concept of three-wide education is fully manifested in the teaching process, and the ideology and politics is carried out throughout the course. To realize the integration of world outlook, values, outlook on life, and career outlook into the curriculum in the silent place, to achieve the effect of moisturizing things in silence, so that the professional introduction is no longer boring, but really stimulates interest and "guides" professional identity. Thirdly, students will be able to understand the nursing profession with the nursing profession mission, and use the professional knowledge of nursing to serve the society and contribute to a healthy China.

Basic Nursing is one of the important professional basic courses for undergraduates nursing students. This course is a discipline that studies the basic theories and techniques related to preventive health care and nursing in the process of disease prevention and recovery. The course introduces the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills of nursing, as well as the latest research progress, strengthens the training of hands-on ability, and enhances students' understanding of the nursing profession. It aims to lay a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students' nursing career development and subsequent clinical courses. This course is completed in two semesters. The course adopts a case-oriented teaching method to cultivate students' rigorous and realistic work style, a high sense of responsibility, sympathy, love, cooperation of solidarity, and good interpersonal relationships. In addition, we place emphasis on the training and cultivation of students' critical thinking ability and practical operation ability, focus on the integration of humanistic concepts and course content, and focus on cultivating students' comprehensive ability to care for and take care of patients, to lay solid basic knowledge and skills for future clinical courses.

Basic Nursing is a subject that studies the basic theories and techniques in the process of preventive health care and disease prevention and recovery. This course introduces the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills of nursing, aiming to lay a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students' nursing career development and subsequent clinical courses. Course teaching focuses on the training and cultivation of students' critical thinking ability and practical operation ability, the integration of humanistic concepts and course content, and the cultivation of students' comprehensive ability to care for and take care of patients.

On the basis of domestic and foreign study and previous scientific research achievements, the teaching team of Patient Safety Culture launched Patient Safety in Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 2018 and built the first domestic patient safety course for nursing majors. It is the first case-based learning (CBL) methods of professional courses in nursing school. It was awarded the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine textbook construction project, edited and published one textbook Patient Safety for the course. We actively explore a teaching-research integration model in which scientific research assists teaching, and teaching feeds back scientific research, aiming to cultivate students' awareness of patient safety, form a clinical thinking mode of discovering, analyzing and solving problems, and improve the ability of patient safety.

This course is based on the patient safety education has become an important strategy for the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve the quality of global medical care in the 21st century, this course revolves around medical students, especially nursing students, as the main reserve force of medical services, and must be a part of the practice of patient safety as the core concept of health care preparation, takes the high-quality development of public hospitals in China as the guiding ideology, takes the main points of patient safety management in the evaluation of graded hospitals as the main line, combines patient safety goals and public hospital performance evaluation indicators, and builds a core competency for patient safety as the framework for the course.

The course adopts a blended teaching closed-loop mode of theory-case practice. On the basis of the theoretical knowledge course, the CBL teaching method was introduced for the first time, and the typical real cases of the hospital were deeply analyzed, and we created a space to think about the way to promote patient safety and provides a professional legal perspective. Through the study of theories and cases, we provide guidance for students in improving the awareness and management of patient safety in hospitals, so that students can understand the connotation of patient safety and the positive guiding role played by patient safety culture in safety management work, and establish the thought that focuses on patient safety as soon as possible. The ideological foundation is of great significance for improving the quality of medical care and avoiding preventable medical errors when students enter the clinic after graduation.

Emergency Nursing is a compulsory course for undergraduate nursing students, with a total of 38 credit hours and 2 credits. It is an emerging clinical nursing discipline that studies the rescue, monitoring, and nursing of various types of critically ill patients.  The course content includes four parts: general introduction to emergency nursing, emergency nursing, critical care, and common rescue techniques. The general introduction of emergency nursing mainly includes the origin and development of emergency nursing, the composition and management of emergency medical service system, disaster nursing, etc.; emergency nursing focuses on emergency triage, nursing evaluation, cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation, common emergencies, severe trauma, environmental and physical and chemical factors injury, acute poisoning, common critical values; critical care mainly discusses system function monitoring and nutritional support for critically ill patients; commonly used emergency techniques for the establishment of artificial ventilation, extratracheal body removal, balloon-mask ventilation, defibrillation, trauma hemostasis, bandaging, fixation, handling, etc.

This course systematically expounds the basic concepts and basic theories of emergency nursing, the content focuses on the connection with nursing and highlights the practical application of nursing. Through the study of this course, students will develop correct thinking methods and observation ability, apply critical care skills, provide timely care for critically ill patients, and lay a good foundation for students to engage in intensive care work and further development in the future.

Health Education and Health Promotion is an elective course for undergraduates majoring in nursing. It is an interdisciplinary subject combining medicine and behavioral science. It has a wide connection with the humanities. It is an important applied course in medical science with strong theoretical and practical nature. This course comprehensively applies the basic theoretical knowledge of health education and health promotion to various places, target groups, and key health issues. Combining domestic and international development trends and academic frontiers, it continuously strengthens the importance of health communication and health behavior intervention skills. In addition, it provides practical and feasible approaches for further development of health work strategies and implementation of health education. By taking this course, students can apply what they have learned. This course adopts the team-oriented teaching method (TBL) to improve the students’ ability in autonomous learning, team inquiry and critical thinking. Students will master the skills of health education and health promotion. Fundamental theories and methods are applied in clinical practice to enhance students' ability to implement health education and manage health education/promotion programs.

Health Assessment is a compulsory course for undergraduates majoring in nursing, with a total of (68+1W) credit hours and 5 credits. This course is a science that studies the basic theories, skills and clinical thinking methods in diagnosing the physical, psychological and social adaptation of individuals, families or communities with the existing or potential health problems from the nursing perspective.

The purpose of the course is to enable students to learn the experience of assessment objectives in the health and life process. By conducting examination and logical analysis in the response of assessment objectives, students can identify the nursing needs and propose nursing diagnoses/problems. The course also provides a basis on further establishing nursing goals, formulating nursing intervention programs, and evaluation of the effects of treatment and nursing. In addition, it enables students to establish correct professional values and professional attitudes.

Health Assessment is a compulsory course for undergraduates majoring in nursing. This course is a science that studies the basic theories, skills and clinical thinking methods in diagnosing the physical, psychological and social adaptation of individuals, families or communities with the existing or potential health problems from the nursing perspective. The purpose of the course is to enable students to learn the experience of assessment objectives in the health and life process. By conducting examination and logical analysis in the response of assessment objectives, students can identify the nursing needs and propose nursing diagnoses/problems. The course also provides a basis on further establishing nursing goals, formulating nursing intervention programs, and evaluation of the effects of treatment and nursing. In addition, it enables students to establish correct professional values and professional attitudes. 

Health Assessment course consists of two parts: Health Assessment I and Health Assessment II. Health Assessment II has a total of 34 credit hours, 2 credits. Based on Health Assessment I (consultation, physical examination, electrocardiogram examination, and diagnostic reasoning, etc.), this course further studies the examinations and methods in laboratory, radiology, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, etc. Mainly based on theoretical teaching, the course combines theoretical examinations and quizzes to comprehensively evaluate students' knowledge and skills. The objective of the course is to cultivate students' ability to make nursing diagnosis, write complete nursing medical record, and monitor and judge the change of the disease condition by synthesizing the various inspection results from a nursing perspective.

Psychiatric Nursing is an important part of nursing professional courses, and it is a compulsory course for undergraduates majoring in nursing, with a total of 34 credit hours and 2 credits. This course mainly includes the basic knowledge of common mental disorders, the treatment and the nursing care in rehabilitation process. Based on the ICD-10 classification standard, the disease knowledge includes the symptomology and treatment in mental diseases, and the basic knowledge in schizophrenia, mood disorders, neurosis and stress-related disorders, etc. In the part of nursing, it includes the basic concepts of mental nursing, specialist nursing skills, and the methods of nursing procedures in the treatment and rehabilitation of different mental disorders. 

By taking this course, students can master the basic theoretical knowledge and nursing skills of psychiatric nursing. This course also focuses on cultivating students' values and attitudes in psychiatric nursing to make students can understand and respect the patients with mental disorders empathically. The course adopts various teaching method including classroom lectures, PBL teaching, patients' experience sharing in classroom, and clinical practice. It will improve students' rational and perceptual understanding, cultivate their basic ideas and skills in solving clinical nursing problems, and lay a solid foundation for clinical study and practice.

Nursing practice activities are directly related to various health outcomes such as increased patient satisfaction, shorter hospital stays, and infection control. Nursing staff play a key role in making decisions about patient care, and have important implications on the continuous quality improvement and the management of health care outcomes. Therefore, nursing staff, especially the graduates from nursing advanced education, should be able to use critical and innovative thinking to participate in clinical problem discovery and evidence-based nursing decision-making. The course is designed under the above mentioned. 

The objectives of this course are that students can master the types and concepts of nursing scientific thinking, and theoretical basis, basic concept and practice process in evidence-based nursing. The students also need to master the methods of obtaining evidence, rigorous evaluate the evidence, and understand the relationship among clinical nursing practice, nursing research and evidence. Finally, it can form a good concept and working method to guide clinical nursing practice.