National Tainan Junior College of Nursing

NTIN was founded as Training Preparation Class of Medical Workers in Southern Taiwan in June 1952. In August 1953, it was promoted to Taiwan Provincial Tainan Vocational High School of Nursing.

It was upgraded to National Tainan Institute of Nursing on 1 August 2000.[1]

• Humanism and Society Science
• Natural and Foundational Medical Science
• Department of Nursing
• Clinical Teacher

• • Fundamentals of Nursing Group
  • Medical and Surgical Nursing Group
  • Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Group
  • Public Health and Psychiatric Nursing Group
  • Basic medical science Group

Nursing Curriculum
The student who attends nursing school will be having these following courses:
(1) General education courses: Chinese, English, chemistry, music, drama, art, etc.
(2) Professional foundation courses: nutriology, psychology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology, physical assessment, and related experimental courses.
(3) Professional core courses: fundamental nursing, medical-surgical nursing, maternal-newborn nursing, pediatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, public health nursing, and experimental and practical courses of all nursing branches.
(4) Professional required and elective courses formulated by the school: long-term care, geriatric care, hospice care, critical care, emergency care, rehabilitation care, clinical test data interpretation, Chinese medical science, and related pragmatic courses that are required or elective.
(5) Required and elective general knowledge courses: computer, sports and leisure, livelihood esthetics, thanatology (death studies), introduction to environmental protection science, English conversation, career planning, etc.
(6) Clinical Practical Training: On-site (or clinical) practical training places consist of the subsidiary medical centre of NCKU, CHI-MEI medical centre, Tainan city hospital, SINLAU hospital, Jianan Psychiatric Centre, Tainan hospital, KUO general hospital in Tainan, the public health centre of Tainan city, etc.

Characteristic Teaching Center

1. Multimedia Audiovisual Teaching Center of Medical-Surgical Nursing and Critical Care Nursing
To promote the quality of medical- surgical nursing, this multimedia audiovisual teaching centre was established. It comprises the modern demonstration wards, critical care units, advanced simulators, modern medical types of equipment, and various teaching aids which are used to train the students efficiently and enhance the students’ abilities to take care of the patients. Besides, there are multimedia audiovisual types of equipment which are used to increase the students’ self-learning abilities. The following pictures show that students in the centre are performing medical-surgical nursing skills, such as the practice of under-water seal drainage, colostomy care skills, and the assessments of cardiopulmonary function.

2. Division of Basic Medical Science
The Division of Basic Medical Science of NTIN is responsible for teaching and training students to study basic medical science, which encompasses Biology, Human Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. Research facilities and equipment are excellent and include human tissue slides, modules, microtome, flow cytometry, protein 2D-system etc... In order to extend basic medical science to the community, our division also holds Teenagers’ Biomedical Summer Camp annually.

3. Maternal-Child Education Center
For the purpose of improving the quality of teaching in maternal care and childcare, this centre was established. The faculty members and students utilize this centre to instruct and learn relevant skills such as breastfeeding, contraceptives, physical assessment for perinatal mothers and newborns.

4. Holistic Health Care Demonstration Center
The nursing school has been established a very thorough Holistic Health Care Demonstration Center that is mainly aimed the trend at ageing society and accorded with modern streams contains the area of simulated experience ageing, a residence for an elderly, activating exercise program for psychomotor function with visual aids, long-term care demonstrations, bath and shower.

5. The Center for Health Promotion and Education
The Center of Health Promotion and Education at the National Tainan Institute of Nursing was established in 2002. There are a number of diverse types of equipment for health-related physical fitness tests, multimedia health education, and health promotion. The center serves as a facility for Health Promotion courses that require demonstrations as well as for research associated with health promotion.

• President Office
• Vice President Office
• Secretariat Office
• Office of Academic Affairs
• Office of Student Affairs
• Office of General Affairs
• Personnel Department
• Accounting Department
• Studies Division
• Environmental Protection and Occupational Safety and Health Center/Environmental and Occupational Health Center
• Alumni

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