College of Nursing 2003-04 Annual Report
College of Nursing to Play Role in Educating Chinese Nurses
A delicious
meal is enjoyed in Shanghai by a U.S. team involved in the emerging Shanghai
health care system. (front row) UWM College of Nursing Dean Sally Lundeen;
Dr. Ken Simons, Medical College of Wisconsin; Dr. John Peterson, CIH (back
row) medical student/interpreter; Mark Anderson, CIH; Marquette College of
Nursing Dean Lea Acord; medical student/interpreter.
by Kris Piwek
A health care revolution is underway in Shanghai, China, a city of 16 million
people. An explosion of international businesses has hastened development
of western style medical facilities and demand for the rapid evolution of
nursing. Many Chinese nurses have essentially a high school education; for
nurses to assume more professional roles, nursing education in China must
change dramatically.
Several Chinese universities have embarked on aggressive programs of medical
and nursing education reform to help transform Shanghai’s health care.
The UWM College of Nursing faculty has an exciting opportunity to play a role
in developing new models of nursing education and practice, working in partnership
with Shanghai Second Medical University (SSMU) International School of Nursing.
Planning for this innovative initiative began this year.
With collaborators from Marquette University College of Nursing and the
Milwaukee-based
Center for International Health (CIH), Dean Sally Lundeen traveled to
Shanghai in fall 2003 for an international conference on medical and nursing
education. During this fact finding trip, she was appointed to the SSMU
International Committee on Nursing Education with representation from China,
Finland, United Kingdom, France and the United States. In this role, she had
the opportunity to
discuss China’s nursing education with physicians and nurses from several
countries and to tour several health care facilities.
The president of SSMU, Dr. Xien Xiou Ming, invited the
college to work with SSMU faculty to develop a baccalaureate program of
nursing education in Shanghai. In collaboration with CIH, Marquette College
of Nursing Dean Lea Acord and Marquette’s faculty, Lundeen and UWM
faculty began to develop a plan to transform nursing education at SSMU.
Ellen Murphy, UWM professor emerita, is coordinating this international
partnership.
The team agreed that it is critical to develop these plans
in close collaboration with Chinese colleagues. A six-member UWM/ Marquette
nursing assessment team will visit Shanghai in spring 2005 to assess the
overall plan and help address a key challenge—how to prepare a cadre
of Chinese faculty at the graduate level to lead the new, baccalaureate
nursing programs.
Several faculty exchanges likely will occur during the next
few years—the
first is already underway. Nurse Bei Wen Wu arrives in Milwaukee in fall 2004
as a visiting professor from SSMU. She will study nursing education and practice
models during her several month stay. Other anticipated opportunities include
student and faculty exchanges in 2006, all of which will be coordinated by
the UWM College of Nursing Center for Cultural Diversity and Global Health.
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