King’s College London (King’s) was approached by a Health School in Jiangsu Province China to provide consultancy advice on the development of the new Nanjing Nightingale Nursing College due to open in 2018. The health school currently runs pre-registration nursing and therapist education programmes and wish to raise the level of their education programmes. Nursing education in China is both at diploma and degree level still but with a different structure to the UK.
Barzdins (2012) suggests that healthcare is under pressure internationally due to societal changes; although his work focussed on the Baltic region it is equally applicable although the context is different to China. Grootjans and Newman (2013) identify that nurses are sharing global concerns in a much wider way than previously.
This was an innovative project for Jiangsu nursing province and for the Health School.
Discussions started in 2015 and there was much in the press about international relations developing with different parts of China at this time.
