After 36 Years with West China Hospital, She Officially Embarks on a New Journey Today! Nursing Director Chen Huirong Officially Joins Our Hospital.

In the hospital, there is such a group of people — they are the doctor’s “eyes,” the patient’s “guardians,” and also the frontline “sentinels” of healthcare. They are nurses.

Recently, our hospital had the honor of welcoming the new head of the Nursing Department — Chief Nursing Officer Chen Huirong. From West China Hospital to our hospital, her 36-year nursing career has now begun a new chapter.

Thirty-six years of dedication at West China, driven only by a call from life.

Over the past 36 years, Chief Nursing Officer Chen Huirong has devoted the best years of her life to the nursing career at West China Hospital. From clinical practice to management, from teaching to team building, she has accumulated extensive experience and built a solid professional foundation.

When asked why she chose to join our hospital at this stage of her career, her answer was sincere and resolute: As a cancer specialty hospital with outstanding strengths in minimally invasive treatment and interventional procedures, the hospital has created a specific professional field for nursing practice. Chief Nursing Officer Chen Huirong expressed her wish to practice and pass on the spirit of nursing she has always cherished here… She is eager to carry forward the “West China nurse” spirit she has nurtured throughout her life—unity, rigor, self-discipline in maintaining integrity when alone (shendu), genuine expertise, and innovation—so that it can be continued here. She is willing to share her experience with her teammates without reservation, helping cultivate an increasingly outstanding nursing team, and working together to care for and protect every patient.

Strict standards and warm care are never a trade-off.

“Tower” is not a trade-off choice, but a harmonious unity of strength and gentleness, just like a lighthouse—requiring both a solid tower structure and warm light.

She said: “Strong professional competence is the final boundary of safety, the first layer of protection we can provide to patients.” At the same time, she regards “humanistic care” as the soul of nursing work: “We must listen with our hearts, accompany with empathy, and become managers with warm hearts in order to build a team that is equally full of compassion.”

This is not only her management philosophy, but also her original aspiration, unchanged over the past 36 years.

She believes that true “high-quality care” lies in achieving the “three orientations” — orienting to the patient, orienting to clinical practice, and orienting to society — thereby achieving the “three satisfactions.” She wholeheartedly promotes “giving time back to nurses and giving nurses back to patients,” because this ultimately leads to a warm goal: for every act of care to return to the original human concern between people.

Future vision: Building a nursing team with breadth, depth, and warmth

Her vision for the team can be summed up in one sentence: “Use expertise to safeguard life, use care to warm the journey.” She strives to build a nursing team that is “highly skilled, deeply compassionate, and adept at coordination.” Through collaboration across different roles, the team will provide patients with “end-to-end, comprehensive” care from treatment to rehabilitation, ensuring that strict standards and warm eyes are never apart.