Background Cultural competence has become increasingly important for Chinese health professionals because of internationalization and the opening up of China to overseas visitors and business as well as a growing awareness of the needs of minority groups within China. This study aimed to evaluate a workshop designed to improve cultural competence among Chinese undergraduate nursing students. ...

Korea, the land of morning calm, and the People’s Republic of China, known as the sleeping dragon in the East, shares several commonalities. They not only share the same continent, but also value similar eastern cultures that strongly inherited by the Confucianism from a single ancient ancestor. Not only that, they both received their nursing traditions from European and the American missionari...

With the economic expansion and life style alteration in China recent years, hospital employers are demanding qualified and competent nurses to provide high-quality clinical care. However, nursing education in China tends not to reflect the changing demands in the hospital nursing environment in time into the program curriculum; partially due to the lack of information on health care employers’...

As one of the most populous country in the world, China's patients are also one of the largest in the world. China has emerged as the world’s second largest economy after three decades of market transition (1), which has the largest number of ageing population and the aging population grows fastest in the world (2). Along with the social development, the human's physical life and spiritual life...

Though nursing education and training have been widely studied, how to encourage nursing staff to supervise nursing students receives relatively less attention. We aim to partially fill this gap by investigating factors affecting nursing staff’s willingness to supervise nursing students. Eleven factors on general qualification merits and seven factors on teaching merits and preferences are cons...

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Paul Edwards Head of practice development, Bupa UK Care Services, Leeds Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Paul Labourne As...

Would mHealth be a Solution to Rehospitalization? Alice Hong Tao1, Susan McRoy2, Carol Hall Ellenbecker3, Lin Wang4* 1Florida Hospital Clinical Excellence and Nursing Research, FL, USA 2College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA 3College of Advancing and Professional Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA 4School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiaot...

Department of Health and Nutritional Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan Division of Colorectal Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei 11260, Taiwan Chinese Medicine Department, China Medical University Beigang ...

Author affiliations: School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China (L.-Z. Fang, L. Zhao, H.-L. Wen, J.-W.. Liu, S.-T. He, X.-S. Zhang, X.-j. Yu); Huangdao District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao City, China (Z.-T. Zhang, Z.-F. Xue, D.-Q. Ma); College of Medicine and Nursing, Dezhou University, Dezhou City, China (Y. Zhang); and University of Texas Medical Branch...