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Our
multi-faceted curriculum will take you to the forefront
of nursing.
Japan's population is getting older and older at an unprecedented
pace, requiring changes in the existing health and welfare
systems as well as in the way the nursing education should
be given. Colleges now face various challenges: the below-capacity
enrollment and the much-talked-about decline in scholastic
ability of students at the entrance, and the ever more
complex world to launch graduates into at the exit. We
are entering a time which requires like never before
sophisticated and diversified medicine, as well as detailed
and scientific approaches to nursing in our daily lives.
The need to acquire more skills and knowledge than before
must raise the value of our nursing spirit, rather than
make us lose focus of it.
Our undergraduate education emphasizes not only the acquisition
of skills and knowledge needed to respond to all levels
of medicine but also the practical understanding of human
psychology, behavioral science and scientific nursing.
In addition to following those courses, everyone should
make their own efforts to improve the quality of nursing,
drawing on their own experiences and broadening their
view of the world further with a wide range of interests.
The epidemic of measles among students at several Japanese
colleges in early 2007, for example, reminds us of such
need. Why did the measles, once a typical disease among
small children, have to wreak havoc among college students
now? One cause is that these students were never vaccinated
against measles when they were small children because
its vaccination was made optional by law then, and they
grew up without being exposed to the disease so far.
Besides these social changes, we have to also look at
microbiology, epidemiology, public hygiene, pathophysiology
of infectious diseases and their care in order to understand
the problem.
As seen in this example, we must always be conscious
that we are surrounded by all kinds of learning materials
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