Chosun University Developed Nursing Textbook Adopted as 'Mongol Nursing National Textbook'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] The nursing major textbooks developed by the Chosun University International Cooperation Leading University Support Project Group have been adopted as the national nursing textbooks of Mongolia.

According to Chosun University (President Min Youngdon) on the 4th, the Chosun University International Cooperation Leading University Support Project Group (Project Director Kim Jinhee) recently received news from the Mongolian Ministry of Health that the nursing major textbooks developed from 2017 to the present have been adopted as Mongolia's national textbooks.

The Chosun University International Cooperation Leading University Support Project Group, the first in the Honam region to receive support from the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea, has been promoting the strengthening of nursing education capabilities and regional end-stage cancer patient family care support projects through exchanges with the Mongolian National University over a total of four years (2017?2021).

The project group has been conducting various activities such as inviting Mongolian nursing personnel to South Korea for training at the National Cancer Center of Korea, participating in international conferences, providing cancer patient education to health center nurses, organizing international health care camps to improve local residents' health, holding joint academic conferences with the Mongolian Nursing Association, and offering financial and technical support for faculty and student education while traveling between Mongolia and Korea.

The textbooks were developed through academic exchanges conducted during the project activities, with manuscripts written, translated, and reviewed by domestic nursing professors and Mongolian local writers. The project group also held a textbook publication ceremony for the nursing major textbooks at Mongolian National University on April 26 last year.

The Mongolian Ministry of Health, as part of improving nursing education, is reported to have decided to adopt nine textbooks as national-level textbooks after discussions on the nursing education programs and textbooks operated by the project group.

The textbooks adopted as Mongolian national textbooks include a total of nine volumes: Basic Nursing 1, Basic Nursing 2, Basic Nursing Practice Guide, Health Assessment Practice Guide, Nursing Ethics, Nursing for Cancer Patients, Introduction to Nursing, Women's Health Nursing Practice Guide, and Pediatric Nursing Practice Guide.

The Mongolian Ministry of Health highly evaluated that the nursing curriculum program at Mongolian National University was improved to international standards through the project group's activities and that the textbooks were developed in accordance with the educational program content.

The project group will support the first publication of these textbooks so that they can be usefully utilized in all educational settings in Mongolia and plans to donate electronic versions of the textbooks to the Mongolian government.

Kim Jinhee, the project director (professor of nursing), said, “It is an honor that the major textbooks developed together with the Mongolian nursing community have been designated as national textbooks, and I want to share this honor with everyone involved in this project.” She added, “I hope the textbooks will be widely used and that Mongolian nursing education will further develop.”