The president : Etsuko Kita |
March
2005 saw the first ever graduates at the Japanese Red
Cross Kyushu International College of Nursing, four years
after its opening at the beginning of the 21st century.
Although we may be young as a college, we believe that
our youth gives us freedom and passion to challenge new
things.
Although our history is short, the college has opened with
the spirit based on the principles of the Red Cross which
has a long history. The seven Fundamental Principles of
the Red Cross - Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence,
Voluntary Services, Unity and Universality - are more meaningful
in our time of unspeakable anxiety.
Our health has been even more threatened in this 21st century
than in the last century, which saw two world wars. The
dignity and lives of humans have always been threatened
by large scale natural disasters, an epidemic of conflict
and terrorism, infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, newly
emerged SARS and bird flu, and destruction of nature caused
by humans.
Now, under these difficult circumstances, we believe that
nursing as a humanitarian science must play an important
part in protecting the physical, psychological and social
health of people all over the world.
At the Japanese Red Cross Kyushu International College
of Nursing students will be provided with opportunities
to see, through the international channels we have with
the Red Cross and with professionals in nursing and health
care in other countries, how every local activity of nursing
worldwide together forms nursing in a global scale.
This is how we guide our students to be able to "act
locally, think globally". We hope that our students
will develop broad knowledge, profound insight, and ability
to act according to circumstances anywhere in the world.
We will keep making efforts to advance nursing education
sounder, more appropriate and more universal. |