Staffed with a total of 2,288 nurses and nursing attendants, the Nursing Department, through Team nursing and Primary Nursing Systems, offers a broad range of nursing services. In compliance with the processes of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation, the department provides patients with individual, holistic and continuous nursing care. It also supports hospital-based home care to extend nursing care to patients at their own homes, so as to promote earlier discharge and decrease the length of hospital stays as well as the cost of hospitalization.
The department has made a number of creative achievements, such as improving the diligence card system, developing a manpower reengineering program and strategy to cope with new policies, the implementation of planned rotations for nurses' professional growth, establishing a "Unit Open House System" for staff to get familiar with different nursing specialties, building up nursing performance appraisals, establishing the role and training of Nurse Specialists (NSP) and Case Managers, holding periodic meetings with new and retiring nurses, and developing patient discharge plans and community services. Furthermore, this was the first nursing department to introduce computerized nursing systems in Taiwan. The department also assisted in the opening of the Neural Regeneration Center, the first of its kind in Taiwan, and the reconstruction of the Oncology Ward.
The Nursing Department also provides orientation, in-service and continuing education, and student-nurse training along with a clinical ladder system. Additionally, it offers opportunities to nursing personnel from other institutions to participate in clinical observations and training. Inter-hospital nursing seminars and symposia are held frequently to introduce up-to-date nursing knowledge and techniques to maintain international nursing standards.
To assure the highest quality of nursing care, emphasizing the patient's ethics and rights, the department has established the Nursing Research and Development Committee to implement the guidelines of the Nursing Quality Assurance Committee (also known as NQAC). In addition, since 1984 the department has published a quarterly VGH Nursing Journal.
Continuing education for nursing staff
Nursing care for patient
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