Specialist Field

We identify issues in women’s health and perinatal care and search for evidence-based solutions. We aim to cultivate the critical thinking and research capabilities required for researchers and practitioners who advance maternal nursing and bring about transformative change in clinical practice.

We aim to develop personnel who are highly practical in working by providing them with the necessary skills to support not only children who are hospitalized but also children living in the local community and their families.

Toward establishing age-friendly communities, we provide training which will contribute in various situations - such as medical institutions, elderly care facilities, community and home care, nursing universities and private corporations. In addition to nursing faculty members, we collaborate with doctors, rehabilitation specialists, legal experts and overseas researchers, further enhancing multidisciplinary learning.

We aim to promote research that contributes to EBP by verbalizing situations at the site of nursing practice and exploring the nursing techniques inherent in them. We pursue high-level nursing practices and work on enhancing capabilities to have them adopted and expanded in clinical settings.

With the focus on maintaining the health of people with stroke, diabetes and other chronic long-term diseases and disabilities in an optimal condition and disease management for them, this program aims to develop personnel who can carry out high-quality research, education and nursing practice that will lead to more effective care through the study of theory, concepts and methodologies.

We aim to cultivate personnel who can accurately identify and analyze problems related to mental healthcare and welfare, explore approaches to psychiatric and mental health nursing and engage in outstanding practice and research that contribute to raising the QOL of those targeted.

The aims are to explore complex, advanced issues in cancer medical care to gain abilities in nursing practice that produce the best outcomes and cultivate researchers and educators and high-level specialized nursing practitioners who can develop, create and practice new forms of cancer nursing.

In addition to exploring current situations and issues in genome/genomic medicine, we place importance on coming face-to-face with the essential nature of life. Our aim is to nurture researchers, educators and advanced nurse practitioners who can take on the high-level challenges that genetic/genomic information will bring in the future.

Critical care nursing aims to improve the quality of life and well-being (QOL) of patients of all ages, in a wide range of treatment and therapy settings including critical care nursing, acute care nursing, perioperative care nursing, emergency nursing, home care, and end-of-life care, and in all stages and conditions of illness, by providing highly specialized nursing care to address life-threatening situations.

By enhancing problem-solving capabilities in nursing, cultivating the ability to identify advanced issues and underlying truths in science and technology, we will take on the challenge of new approaches in nursing. Through interdisciplinary research for the purpose of reinforcing the foundation of nursing, we aim to nurture personnel who contribute to specialist foundational fields as well as nursing practice and nursing education.

Home care plays a major role in the continuation of a dignified lifestyle in a community that one is accustomed to living in, until the final stage of life. Focusing on the practice of home care, collaboration among care institutions and creating care systems, the aim is to cultivate personnel who can be involved in advanced nursing practice and research.

In public health nursing, we cultivate the professional competencies and educator/researcher qualities necessary to think from a bird’s eye perspective, taking into account digital transformation and other societal changes. We learn methodologies such as district diagnosis and program evaluation from a nursing perspective, thereby acquiring practical skills. Furthermore, we aim to cultivate personnel who can contribute to the advancement of public health nursing by acquiring foundational research capabilities.

Toward the goal of “health for all” in the global health field, clarifying issues in current society, we aim to rectify inequalities in health by cultivating regional nursing professionals who can engage in nursing practice and research based on scientific evidence. Based on this, we aim to nurture personnel who can be active on the global stage.

We broadly explore management practices that produce outstanding results by incorporating perspectives from behavioral economics and other skills into traditional management science in order to cultivate high-level management capabilities. Conducting policy analysis using an evidence-based policy making process, we aim to acquire research methodologies that will contribute to policy recommendations.

In addition to acquiring the knowledge, theories, methodologies and skills that form the core of nursing education, students will also develop the sense of values and attitudes required in nursing. Based on nursing education, they will learn about practical approaches to promoting the growth and development of nursing professionals.