At the Faculty of Health Care Semmelweis University (formerly Postgraduate Medical
University, then Haynal Imre University of Health Sciences) registered nurse training startedon a full-time basis in 1990. In developing the programme (the end of the eighties, the beginning of the nineties), besides the experiences of the representatives of the national professional organisations, recommendations from the European Community or experiences from other parts of the world, mainly North America, were taken into account. The first fulltime year that graduated from college started work in 1994. Over the last thirteen years a total of 1577 degrees in nursing have been awarded in Budapest. Almost one third of the graduates were regular full-time students. At present there are 11 cities in this country where registered nursing training takes place at college level: four-year full-time or correspondence courses, with the college faculties of six universities teaching nursing as an independent programme
which provides broadly-based general and specialised nursing knowledge.