Adult Nursing Division
Students practice breathing exercises
Adult nursing focuses mainly on teaching students how to provide nursing intervention aimed at maintaining and enhancing the optimum health of a person during their adulthood. In addition to subjects in the adult field such as lifestyle habits and health problems, theory of adult nursing care, terminal care and cancer nursing, and practical adult nursing, first-year classes include practical problem-solving seminars (life cycle and health), expanding independent student study of developmental stages and developmental issues from the standpoint of maintaining and enhancing people’s well-being. Particular effort is devoted to research topics such as nursing education and cancer nursing.
Clinical Nursing Divison
Students at a research meeting
Clinical Nursing provides students with lectures on key subjects such as anatomical physiology, pharmacology, and pathology. As part of the anatomical physiology classes, students perform dissections in addition to observing operations in operation rooms and participating in team medicine, providing them with experience in the clinical workplace from an early stage.
With regard to the clinical aspects of training, a nutritional support team has been established and it operates at the Kochi Medical School Hospital. In team medicine, it is important that medical workers of all occupations be able to express opinions as equals, each using their particular specialized knowledge. Clinical Nursing aims to nurture nurses who are able to express appropriate opinions as part of this teamwork.
In research, β-glucan produced by a local business is used to examine the immunostimulating effect, antitumor effect, and blood glucose improving effect of β-glucan.
Pediatric Nursing Division
Halloween activities as part of
practical pediatric nursing training
Under the motto “Learning together with students”, education in Pediatric Nursing is undertaken giving constant consideration to maintaining a deep interest in children and their families and to the methods of nurturing children’s futures. At the undergraduate level, with the aim of supporting children’s healthy growth, students deepen their understanding of nursing as the foundation of the lifestyles of children at various levels of health and their families’ lifestyles as well as nursing that responds to the needs of children and their families. At the postgraduate level, focus is placed mainly on mothers and their children and families, with students learning about Japan’s traditional childrearing culture and human development, family backgrounds that cultivate a “concern for others” and the parent-child relationship, and parenting training.
Maternal Nursing Division
Students practice bathing a newborn
In Maternal Nursing, students pursue nursing aimed at providing support that enables women as well as mothers and their children and families to harness their inherent strength based on reproductive health/rights. At the undergraduate level, educational activities include “Introduction to Maternal Nursing I”, “Introduction to Maternal Nursing II”, “Maternity Assessment and Care”, and “Practical Maternal Nursing”, while at the postgraduate level educational activities include “Advanced Maternal and Child Nursing Theory I”, “Practical Maternal and Child Nursing II”, and “Parenting”. In addition, we undertake research activities with the objective of providing support for childbirth and childrearing. In future, we intend to simultaneously implement and conduct research for the “Support Program for Strengthening Bonds between Children and their Families”, which is a community contribution activity involving cooperation across multiple professions, thus contributing to the promotion of the health and well-being of women as well as mothers and their children and families.
Psychiatric Nursing Division
Students with patients at Christmas party
In Psychiatric Nursing, students acquire basic interpersonal skills in “Communication Theory” in their first year, and they go on to study specialist fields of psychiatric nursing in “Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing” in their second year, and “Psychiatric Nursing Assistance Theory” in their third year, undertaking practical training in the second semester of their third year. Through lectures and practical work, students daily share the interesting aspects of psychiatric nursing, interacting with patients, and the satisfaction of getting to know patients.
Research activities include research related to nursing intervention by skilled psychiatric nurses and research related to the level of psychiatric nursing skills achieved through basic nursing education.