General Nursing

Introduction Teaching and Learning Strategies Mentorship Overseas Clinical Exchange Programmes

Introduction

Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Nursing and Master of Nursing programmes are pre-registration programmes to prepare students for registration as Registered (General) Nurses with The Nursing Council of Hong Kong. The clinical education of the school is aligned with the programme intended learning outcomes and provides students with a variety of nursing experiences from simple to complex, and from general nursing to specialty training.

Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Nursing
Master of Nursing

Students learn from different clinical settings and they can have the opportunities to exchange overseas to broaden their horizon. Our state-of-the-art laboratory equipment include high fidelity adult and paediatric simulators and simulated wards. The Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, the Department of Health and organisations/clinics/hospitals providing primary to tertiary health care services, offer clinical learning opportunities for our students to practice at their venues.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Virtual-reality (VR) learning experience

Virtual Hospital is an immersive VR-assisted experiential learning system innovated by the School. It includes over 1,200 combinations of randomised situations and multiple choices questions, and mimics real-life multi-bed wards with chaotic, incidental contexts and clinical pitfalls. Students can develop clinical competence, build multitasking skills, and enhance prioritization judgment and effective decision-making abilities while practicing in this simulated environment.

Click here to view the Virtual Hospital’s introduction video.

Strengthening clinical reasoning

The clinical reasoning framework is integrated to the subjects throughout the curriculum. This emphasizes on the integration of theoretical and clinical knowledge and its application in clinical settings. It aims to strengthen students’ critical thinking and clinical decision-making abilities.

Preparing students for clinical placement

All nursing subjects are linked closely with the clinical placement which starts from year 2 until completion of subjects related to basic nursing care. Prior to the clinical placement, students have an opportunity to participate in the Pre-clinical Workshops to sharpen their knowledge and skills.

Equipping students for future career

Inter-professional Education is promoted in classrooms and piloted in simulated wards. Undergraduate students from the Faculty of Health and Social Science join in both classroom and extracurricular activities to enhance their communication skills, leadership abilities and develop mutual respect between health care professionals for their future collaborative practices.

Expanding students' horizon

Offshore Clinical Placement Exchange programmes are offered which allow students to work and study in overseas and China's hospitals. In addition, both local and overseas Primary Health Care experiences gained through the Service-Learning Subjects are recognised as clinical hours.

Applying knowledge and developing nursing skills using high fidelity patient simulators

The School pioneered the use of high-fidelity patient simulators in the late 90s. The Dorothy WONG Intensive Care Laboratory, which was renovated in 2017, is a fully furnished intensive care unit with state-of-the-art facilities. Simulated clinical experiences are major learning and teaching strategies in all nursing therapeutics subjects. Simulated Wards and Gerontological Nursing Laboratory are available for students' learning and practice in real-life settings.

Mentorship

Throughout the year two to year three of the studies, our students are supervised by the teaching staff of the School directly or by the clinical teachers nominated by the hospitals as instructors in both subacute and acute settings for medical and surgical nursing. Honorary Clinical Instructors are invited to coach senior year students in specialty placement and during the long consolidation in their final year to bridge the theory and practice gap and to facilitate the transition from students to staff nurses.