Graduate School of Nursing
Message from the Dean
In response to social changes, we strive to develop human resources who respect life and human rights, who can practice nursing creatively and scientifically, and who can engage in nursing education and research.
Graduate School of Nursing will begin offering doctoral courses in 2025. Accordingly, the current master's course will be renamed the "Master's Course," and a learning system will be established with a Master's Course (Master's) and a Doctoral Course (Doctoral), which takes into account the positioning and continuity of each degree.
In order to meet the diverse needs of students, the Master's Program offers two courses, "Basic Nursing Research" and "CNS Course: Nursing Research and Advanced Practice," to help students achieve their goals.
In the doctoral program, we have established the "Field of Nursing Practice Development Science." In this field, we clarify issues in nursing practice from a global and interdisciplinary perspective, conduct in-depth analysis of the issues based on theories and evidence from nursing and related fields, and advance theory construction and exploration of nursing care. This will support the development of human resources who can not only develop nursing care as nursing practitioners, administrators, educators, and researchers, but also effectively implement research findings.
Graduate School of Nursing will continue to improve the quality of education and research, and contribute to improving people's health and quality of life (QOL) through collaboration with the local community. We sincerely hope that you will grow significantly in this graduate school and become a driving force in nursing in the future.
Dean of the Graduate School of Nursing
Rie Konno
Graduate School of Nursing Mission/Purpose
Mission
In response to changes in health, medical care, welfare, and society, Graduate School of Nursing respects life and human rights, and is based on interdisciplinary knowledge centered on nursing science. It cultivates human resources who can create, implement, and develop nursing care, as well as human resources who can be involved in education in nursing practice and the training of nursing researchers, thereby contributing to the improvement of people's health and quality of life and the progress and development of nursing science.
Purpose
Graduate School of Nursing has established Course of Nursing to foster pioneering and creative advanced nursing practice abilities and the ability to create and disseminate nursing care. Based on interdisciplinary knowledge centered on nursing and advanced nursing practice abilities, we foster nursing practitioners, researchers, and educators who can contribute to the progress and development of nursing and medical care.
Master's Program Purpose/Educational Goals
Purpose
Graduate School of Nursing has two areas: Basic Nursing Research and Research on Nursing Topics and Advanced Practice, and systematically teaches the basic theories and their applications that serve as the scientific basis for each nursing practice. We aim to develop talented individuals who, as nursing professionals with a rich humanity, have the ability to practice advanced nursing in a pioneering and creative manner, as well as the educational and research capabilities to scientifically explain nursing phenomena.
Educational Objectives
Graduate School of Nursing aims to develop human resources who have acquired the following abilities:
1. To acquire the scientific basis and theory of nursing practice in health, medical and welfare settings, and to develop the ability to apply it to nursing practice.
2. We will develop the ability to practice advanced nursing in a pioneering and creative manner based on specialized knowledge and skills in nursing science, as nursing professionals who respect people's dignity and are rich in humanity.
3. Cultivate the ability to educate and research nursing science to scientifically explain nursing phenomena.
Doctoral Program Purpose/Educational Goal
Purpose
Graduate School of Nursing has established a field of nursing practice development science, and aims to develop human resources who are able to transform the field of nursing with the educational and research capabilities to scientifically explain nursing phenomena, based on specialized knowledge and techniques in nursing.
Educational Objectives
Graduate School of Nursing has the educational goal of nurturing human resources who have acquired the following abilities:
As nursing practitioners, researchers and educators with the power to implement research findings into nursing care and bring about change, students will develop the ability to identify issues related to nursing practice in facilities and communities from a global and interdisciplinary perspective, deepen their analysis using theories and evidence from nursing and related fields, collaborate and cooperate with medical professionals, including nurses, and nursing researchers in the field of nursing practice, and create and disseminate nursing care.