Nursing in Taiwan

Nursing education

• Ministry of Health and Welfare in charge of law,regulation in Taiwan,Nursing is a licensed profession in Taiwan(ROC) with specialist education for nurses.^[1]

• Now day in Taiwan,there are three routes of education entry, all path could finish the training for nursing student^[2]

type	train length	kanji
Specialty course	5 years or 7 years	專科學校
Normal college course	4 years	普通大學
Inaugural class	2 years	在職專班

School health nursing

School nurse (kanji:校護)focus on school health caring,responsible for children health.the daily task for school nurse contain^[3]

1. Disease prevention and control
2. Student health examination
3. Staff health check
4. Specific disease case management(such as tuberculosis)
5. Basic therapy and emergency medical services technical for student(EMB,CPR)

Nursing schools

School	Location	kanji
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital	Taipei	成功紀念醫院
Mackay Memorial Hospital	Taipei	馬偕紀念醫院
National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei	國立台灣大學醫學院附設醫院
Taipei Veterans General Hospital	Taipei	台北榮民總醫院
Tri-Service General Hospital	Taipei	三軍總醫院
National Taipei College of Nursing	Taipei	國立臺北護理健康大學
National Tainan Institute of Nursing	Tainan	國立臺南護理專科學校

Advanced licensing

• After a period of working experience (typically 2 years), nurses may begin assign for advanced professional licenses(kanji:專科護理師) training,which will gain nurse in a specialty region license, such as burn nursing, anesthesia nursing, and surgery nursing,there is also available of license in nursing management(kanji:醫務管理).^[4]
• This will give the right for nurse,allow some action such as order medication (kanji:醫囑)

References

1. Ministry of Health and Welfare衛福部
2. "notepad the association of Chinese school health nursing". notepad the association of Chinese school health nursing.
3. "Health guile for high school health educator" (PDF). Health guile for high school health educator.
4. Taiwan Association of Nurse Practitioner台灣專科護理協會

External links

• Taiwan Nurses Association
• School health law in Taiwan