Nursing science is an important subject for maintaining and promoting the physical and mental health of humans. In recent years, with the rapid development of global life health science and technology, the nursing discipline has faced new opportunities and challenges under the guidance of the national Double First-Class discipline construction plan. This article briefly reviews the development process and present situation of the nursing discipline, and puts forward the outlook for nursing discipline construction. These suggestions include constructing a nursing ideological education system based on Chinese culture, enhancing the nursing discipline system, optimising nursing talent allocation, and establishing nursing science and technology support platforms, in order to provide reference for promoting the development of the nursing discipline.
