The study was carried out to clarify our understanding of current state of nursing education in China as a part of international studies in nursing. The information contained in this report are from the reviewing of literature and site visits made to a part of China including two provincial hospitals affiliated with medical colleges and schools of nursing in Shandong Province and the School of Nursing, Peking Union Medical College in Peking. In this study, transitional state of Chinese nursing education is described and analytically viewed from historical, political and socioeconomic context in order to comprehend the meaning of transition in its relation to contextual environment. Issues and problems of nursing education in China were delineated from the perspective of emergent health care needs related to socio-demographic changes and technological and socioeconomical advancement and from the perspective of current pattern of education and utilization of health personnel. For an international cooperation between China and Japan, focus placed on community health nursing with all related fields of study was recommended as contributing most to the advancement of Chinese nursing and health promotion of the population.

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We conduct psychiatric nursing practice not only in the ward but also at outpatient, day-care, and visit nursing sites at the Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences. During the practice for visit nursing, students visit a user's home with a visiting nurse of the practice hospital one by one, in order to study the user's appearance and the actuality of nursing, and to think about the contents and meaning of visit nursing. In this paper, we examined the meaning and the problems associated with visit nursing practice in our psychiatric nursing practice based on students' appearance during conferences and an analysis of the students' reports after visits. The "Content of caring" made a deep impression on a lot of students, and many especially paid attention to ways of communication and empowerment. On the other hand, the impressions of giving help to the family, joint cooperation with other occupations, and appeals to the region were of an extremely small number. In order to make the visit nursing practice more effective in the future, we should enhance guidance beforehand, devise methods of guidance during conferences, and give guidance concerning regional nursing practice.

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