ABSTRACT
Objective How to improve nursing students′consciousness and ability of scientific research remains a big chal-lenge to in advanced nursing education .This study aimed to investigate the mode and methods of training the scientific research ability of adult nursing students in the junior-to-regular college education program . Methods Using a new mode of scientific research train-ing, i.e.class training+tutors′guidance+individual appraisal , we trained 242 adult nursing students from grades 2009 to 2013 of the junior-to-regular college education program , along with related questionnaire investigation . Results All the students considered the mode to be effective in improving their consciousness and ability of scientific research .During their study at school , they published 115 research papers in the Source Journals for Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations , and 18 of them undertook nursing re-search projects and won various awards for science and technology achievements in nursing research . Conclusion This new mode can effectively promote the scientific research ability of adult nursing students in the junior -to-regular college education program .