The history of the Nursing Department can trace back to the Nursing School of Hangzhou Guangji Hospital established in 1917. In the past century, the Nursing Department has trained tens of thousands of nurses. Due to high quality teaching and research, the nursing program has been known as one of the best programs in Zhejiang province and even in China. In 2003, the department started full time nursing education for undergraduates. In 2006, the department was granted the right to confer master’s degree. In 2016, it started nursing education for overseas full time undergraduate students. At present, the department has over 500 full time undergraduate students, more than 30 full time postgraduate students and more than 30 full time international students in school. At present, Nursing Department owns a faculty team with rich clinical and teaching experience. 48% of the faculty holds senior professional titles, 50% of the faculty holds doctoral degree, and 95% of the teachers have more than 10 years’ teaching experience. Approximate 80% of the faculty has the experience of studying or visiting in USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Korea. The Nursing Department hold on to discipline and speciality construction and have continuously expanded social service function. In 2004, it became the affiliated unit of Zhejiang Province Community Nurse On-the-job Training Center. In 2009, the department established Zhejiang Practical Training Center for Nursing of Elders. It has been successively listed Hangzhou Characteristic Specialty, Zhejiang Province Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and Zhejiang Province Key Discipline, Zhejiang Province First-class Discipline, and Zhejiang Province Characteristic Specialty. The Nursing Experiment Center is the experimental teaching demonstration center of Zhejiang Province and is equipped with central control system, simulation nursing teaching system and hospital information management training system.