Principle, Educational Goals, and Objectives Towards Fostering Competent Nursing Professionals
Principle
The Graduate School of Nursing (master’s program) aims to contribute to people’s health and the advancement of nursing science by fostering nursing professionals who are graduates of our university’s School of Nursing or of other universities, or who work in healthcare, medical, and welfare settings, into individuals who possess advanced practical nursing skills based on specialized knowledge and techniques, and are capable of adapting to changes in the fields of healthcare, medicine, and welfare as well as in society with a broad perspective, and individuals possessing fundamental teaching and research skills in nursing science.
Educational Goals
- The ability to independently conduct nursing research activities based on high ethical standards.
- The ability to promote practical clinical research, and to rapidly adapt to the times.
- The ability to contribute to the community, and to the fields of healthcare, medicine, and welfare, through research activities.
- The ability to contribute to education of the next generation through research activities and cultivation of practical ability.
- The ability to promote exchanges with researchers and clinicians both within and outside Japan, and to disseminate the results of activities.
Objectives Towards Fostering Competent Nursing Professionals
The Graduate School of Nursing aims to further deepen the skills acquired in basic education and to cultivate advanced practical nursing skills and fundamental teaching and research skills based on our school philosophy of “Self-Reliance and Self-Study”, and our educational vision of “Fostering individuals capable of having long and successful professional careers”, and to thereby foster individuals who contribute to improvements in nursing quality in practical settings, and individuals capable of contributing to the advancement of nursing science as educational researchers in the future.
Specifically, the Graduate School of Nursing seeks to foster the following types of individuals:
Individuals who scientifically analyze issues identified based on nursing practice, derive new nursing knowledge from analysis, and transfer the knowledge back into practice
Individuals capable of contributing directly to the improvement of nursing quality in practical settings, by implementing nursing practice backed by advanced specialized knowledge and techniques, as well as the ability to apply them
Individuals who will be responsible for training the next generation of nursing professionals in practical settings and basic nursing education settings, and will in the future become independent educational researchers
The Graduate School of Nursing will cultivate the ability to engage in lifelong self-study and self-development as the basis for the fostering of these individuals.