Innovation and Practice Strategies of Ideological and Political Education in Core Courses for Nursing Majors

Abstract

As a core course in nursing education, surgical nursing is characterized by strong theoretical and practical components, making it a mandatory and foundational curriculum for nursing students. Nursing is a highly practice-oriented medical discipline, and the teaching of its core courses not only involves the systematic transmission of professional knowledge and clinical skills, but also bears the responsibility of cultivating nursing professionals with solid professional ethics, humanistic literacy, and a strong sense of social responsibility. This paper takes the current status of ideological and political education in core nursing courses as a starting point, comprehensively analyzing four prominent practical challenges: insufficient integration of ideological and political elements with specialized content, inadequate innovation in teaching methods and evaluation models, limited development of teachers’ ideological and educational capabilities, and a lack of systematic integration and effective utilization of teaching resources. On this basis, targeted innovative strategies are proposed, including deepening the excavation of ideological and political elements within professional knowledge to establish value-oriented teaching themes, innovating pedagogical approaches to create experiential and student-centered classrooms, strengthening institutional and professional support to build high-quality teaching teams, and optimizing management and feedback mechanisms to develop diversified, process-oriented assessment models. These strategies aim to provide systematic solutions for the reform of ideological and political education in nursing core courses, promote the comprehensive improvement of nursing talent cultivation quality, and better serve the national strategic layout of building a Healthy China.