Nursing science is an important subject for maintaining and promoting the physical and mental health of humans. In recent years, with the rapid development of global life health science and technology, the nursing discipline has faced new opportunities and challenges under the guidance of the national Double First-Class discipline construction plan. This article briefly reviews the development process and present situation of the nursing discipline, and puts forward the outlook for nursing discipline construction. These suggestions include constructing a nursing ideological education system based on Chinese culture, enhancing the nursing discipline system, optimising nursing talent allocation, and establishing nursing science and technology support platforms, in order to provide reference for promoting the development of the nursing discipline.
Under the trend of “new medical disciplines leading the innovation of medical education”, in order to solve the difficulties in cultivating medical-engineering talents, such as the lack of a systematic talent cultivation system and integrated teaching staff, the School of Allied Health Sciences, West China School of Medicine of Sichuan University leverages the comprehensive strengths of Sichuan University and joins hands with the School of Mechanical Engineering of Sichuan University to set up a double bachelor’s degree program in Medical Technology and Intelligent Manufacturing, and establish a cultivation mode for medical-engineering compound talents by “integrating science-education teams, developing first-class interdisciplinary platforms, compiling medical engineering textbooks, reshaping teaching methods, and configuring tripartite mentors”. This collaboration aims to form a medical technology education system that meets the development requirements of modern medicine, and to promote the development of medical technology toward digitalization, precision, and informatization. This practice provides a reference for the cultivation of medical-engineering compound talents under the trend of new medical disciplines.