[Taiwan nursing accreditation for nursing education].

ABSTRACT

On 1st January 2003, with the support and assistance of Professor Kun-Yan Huang, the Ministry of Education assembled its University Nursing Departments Evaluation Planning Group. Professor Yu-Mei Yu Chao led the group in over a year of hard work and planned an accreditation of systematic evaluation of university nursing departments. The hope is to accumulate experience through this accreditation to promote nursing undergraduate programs evaluation to the Ministry of Education's technical and vocational training system. This article illustrates the 12 core disciplines that the evaluation system stresses as embodying the spirit and aims of nursing. Once the spirit and aims of education have been dealt with, the evaluation turns to the six important matters of conduct of departmental affairs, faculty, students, curriculum and teaching, teaching resources and educational outcomes. The system is expected to raise the quality of nursing education, help in the monitoring of the citizens' health care, and raise the success and satisfaction levels of students.