The Graduate School of Health Care Sciences was established in April 2001 as the first national graduate school of nursing and laboratory sciences in Japan. The school comprises the Division of Comprehensive Health Nursing Sciences and the Division of Biomedical Laborator y Sciences, to manage many complex issues in health care science area in this centur y. In order to respond to these challenges and to assume international and multidisciplinary leadership roles, it is the primary philosophy of this school to prepare advanced professionals and leading international scholars through the development of an advanced educational research system and the promotion of clinicaloriented research activities in graduate school.
As our basic philosophy, we aim for each s tudent to be a scholar as well as an international leader and a leading advanced professional in clinical-oriented research. Students become advanced professionals who can take a leadership role in clinical fields and at the same time, international leading scholars who can solve problems in diverse clinical settings including communities.
Clinical competency in nursing includes skills in such professional areas as prevention of health and related living problems, recovery of good health, rehabilitation, palliative care, advanced nursing techniques, and establishment of care systems. Clinical competency in laboratory science includes accurate clinical laboratory analysis in response to advances in health care. By repeating a developmental cycle from clarifying clinical problems, exploring research for problem-solving, applying research outcome to practice, confirming its validity, to clarif ying new research ques tions, focus and methods, students can acquire the foundation for international research leadership with clinical competency.
Features of Our Graduate School
The educational research divisions in the graduate school have been organized to respond to the present and future needs of society for developing nursing and laboratory sciences. There are t hre e dep ar tment s and ele ven e duc a t ional research divisions in comprehensive health nursing sciences. There are two depar tments and ten educational research divisions in biomedical laborator y sciences. The educational research divisions are composed of advanced professional programs.
Health and related living problems are diverse and complicated. The program of the Division of Comprehensive Health Nursing Sciences is designed to prepare professional nurses with organizational problem-solving skills to engage in a variety of a dvanced nursing practices . The goal of this advanced nursing prac tice is to achieve individual health, greater independence of living and quality of life for clients of all ages and families from a holistic view of disease prevention, health recovery, rehabilitation, and terminal care.
Medicine and health care techniques have become increasingly advanced, influenced by the rapid progress of molecular biolog y in par ticular. L abor ator y science is no exception. Theprogram of the Division of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences prepares students to develop accurate and highly f unc tional clinic al labor ator y me thodologie s and biomedical support systems, including home clinical laboratory system and rehabilitation tools. The course of study is based on analysis of biomedical information from molecular and cell levels to organ and individual levels, and exploration of etiology and pathophysiological analysis.
