Interdisciplinarity catalyzes sustained development of nursing discipline
Journal: Interdisciplinary Nursing Research
Year: 2022

Nursing as an independent discipline is faced with tremendous opportunities and challenges in the 21st century—opportunities and challenges brought about by an aging world population, a changing disease spectrum, a global shortage of nurses, an increasingly complex and diverse needs in nursing care, a quantum leap in medical technologies, and an evolving landscape of health policies1,2. In China, in particular, this discipline contends with even higher expectations, as strategies such as Healthy