The College of Nursing at Keimyung University is globally recognized for its leadership in nursing, education, and research.
Based on the institutional precept, “For the kingdom of truth, justice and love" the College of Nursing strives ”To promote holistic education and professional Based on the institutional precept, “For the kingdom of truth, justice and love" the College of Nursing strives To pursuit of academic excellence, to enhancement of ethical values, explication of existential nature of man as our educational purposes. The College of Nursing retains excellent educational facilities such as comfortable lecture and debriefing rooms, furnished with ultramodern equipment and instruments, and laboratories for practice of biological nursing, fundamental nursing, clinical nursing, maternity nursing, community public health nursing, and nursing informatics.
In order to create and nurture a learning environment that builds on our tradition of scientific inquiry and commitment to the highest standards of excellence in research, education, and practice, the college has secured clinical nursing practice in the Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, which has a 123-year rich history if innovation and global contributions.
In particular, the hospital is newly expanded and transferred in April 2019. Dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship, the College of Nursing has committed to the pursuit of excellence in services to local and global communities.
Furthermore, our college operates a Research Institute of Nursing Science and medical library. The graduates of our college have recorded over 95 percent of pass rate at the national nursing licence examinations every year.
History
The College of Nursing was founded in 1924 by Ms. Clara Hedburg Bruen who was a nursing missionary from Presbyterian Church in the USA. The college was reorganized into Dongsan Nursing College in 1979, and then into the Department of Nursing within the School of Medicine, Keimyung University in 1989. In 1993 the college was upgraded to a college of nursing, which is the first instance outside the Seoul metropolitan area. Special courses for RN-BSN Transfer to acquire bachelor's degree was opened in 2000. Our college building was relocated to the present site within Seongseo campus in February 2010.
Educational Objectives
The educational objectives of our college of nursing is to foster creative nurses dedicated to the pursuit of truth, to foster ethical nurses committed to the realization of justice and to nurture holistic nursing leaders devoted to the practice of love.
Equipment and Facilities
Our college of nursing is housed in a newly constructed five-story building, with a total area of 8,448.7㎡. Our building has four lecture rooms furnished with ultramodern equipment, K-SMART Center with six debriefing rooms and seven simulation labs, four seminar rooms, faculty offices, administration office, meeting rooms, a faculty lounge, a student lounge, female student lounge, student circle rooms and a Research Institute of Nursing Science office.
Administration Office
- Telephone : 053)258-7611~5
- Location : Room N208, 2nd Floor, Jeongapgyu Hall