Program Overview

University Program Overview

The master's degree program in nursing is designed to bring together graduate registered nurses from undergraduate schools of healthcare sciences and engage them in advanced studies to produce nursing specialists with master's degrees. The doctoral degree program in nursing focuses on developing human resources who can make a creative contribution to nursing science, facilitating the advancement of theory construction and systematization in nursing science to comply with the requirements of complex and diversified healthcare and nursing.

Major Fields of Study

The nursing degree programs offer four major fields of study at the master's level:

• Nursing Science
• Advanced Public Health Nursing
• Advanced Midwifery
• Advanced Practice Nursing
  • The latter three take practical approaches designed for specialized nursing education.
  • Advanced Public Health Nursing is a program to train public health nurses.
  • Advanced Midwifery prepares registered nurse-midwives.
  • Advanced Practice Nursing develops specialized nurses in cancer care. At the doctoral level, an integrated major field of study in Nursing Sciences is offered.

Supervising Faculty

The following faculty members supervise in the degree programs and major fields of study:

• Yasuhiko EBINA, Professor: Nursing, Nursing Sciences, Advanced Midwifery
• Atsuko IKEDA, Professor: Advanced Midwifery
• Mikiko IWAMOTO, Associate Professor: Health Science
• Yoshiko KONDO, Associate Professor: Advanced Midwifery, Nursing
• Akemi MATSUZAWA, Associate Professor: Advanced Midwifery
• Naoko MIYAJIMA, Associate Professor:
• Katsuhiko OGASAWARA, Professor: Health Sciences
• Mika OTSUKI, Associate Professor: Health Sciences
• Miho SATO, Associate Professor: Health Sciences
• Naomi SUMI, Professor: Advanced Practice Nursing, Nursing, Nursing Sciences
• Etsuko TADAKA, Professor: Advanced Practice Nursing, Nursing Sciences
• Taro YAMAUCHI, Professor: Advanced Public Health Nursing, Health Sciences
• Rika YANO, Professor: Advanced Public Health Nursing, Nursing Sciences