comparison of nursing education system in iran and china

background and objective: establishing and implementing high quality of nursing care for patients is the main objective of any nursing education system. however, the lack of proficient nurses all over the world led to a competition and collaboration among countries to train as much nurses with high skills and knowledge as possible. this paper aims at studying and comparing two nursing education systems in iran and china. materials and methods: integrative literature review of published literature on the nursing education systems in the iran and china from 1990 to 2015. results: the results show that in spite of many common aspects, the most significant similarity between these two systems is their educational paradigm that is concentrated on treatment of internal diseases and surgery with modeling the western bio-medical model, and the major difference is validating the quality of nursing education graduates in these two countries; in china, a national test is hold to receive a certificate after graduation and before starting to work as a nurse, but in iran, there is no such program at the present. conclusions: we may use the two countries’ capabilities and educational experiences in order to improve the quality of nursing education in the other country, and hence, we may achieve the ultimate goal of nursing, i.e. providing nursing care with high quality for patients.