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March 4, 2026npj Digital Medicine0 citationsOpen Access

Engineering the nursing profession: China’s academician system reform and its implications for interdisciplinary health workforce development

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WZWanqiong ZhouShanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineCZCheng-Rui ZhangShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityYXYing XingShanghai University

Key Points

  • To explore the impact of including nursing as a discipline in the Chinese Academy of Engineering on workforce development.
  • Analysis of the 2025 reform and its historical context
  • Evaluation of nursing's discipline value within the Healthy China initiative
  • Assessment of the need for technological innovation in nursing
  • Integration of nursing into the engineering academy indicates elevated disciplinary importance.
  • Identified a need for nursing to embrace technological advancements for effective practice.
  • Emphasized the role of interdisciplinary collaboration to strengthen the health workforce.

Abstract

In 2025, the Chinese Academy of Engineering’s inclusion of “Nursing” as an independent academician-track discipline marks a historic milestone. While affirming nursing’s disciplinary value and strategic importance to the “Healthy China” initiative, this reform presents a “preparedness crisis.” To succeed, nursing must pivot from soft service models to hard technological innovation, leveraging medical-industrial integration and interdisciplinary talent to meet rigorous engineering criteria.

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Zhou et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a7cd5ed48f933b5eed9acehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-026-02481-0
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