Yamagata University
Faculty of Medicine

School of Nursing /Graduate School

2-2-2 Iida-Nishi, Yamagata-shi,
Yamagata 990-9585, Japan
Phone +81-23-633-1122
http://n-yu.jp/

Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine,
School of Nursing / Graduate School
Introduction
Founded in 1993, the School of Nursing of the Faculty of Medicine at Yamagata
University is unique as the first school of nursing among national university systems in the
Northern east area of Japan.
In April 2007, the Graduate School of Nursing was established, andit began offering the Doctoral Program. Since its inception, theprimary mission of the School of Nursing has been to cultivate people
who possess advanced knowledge and skills to lead in medical,
education, and academic fields, as well as in public health.
The School of Nursing provides a dynamic environment and takes
pride in its excellent roster of professors. Undergraduate andgraduate programs are carried out in partnership with the Yamagata
University Hospital.

History
1973 Establish “Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine”
1993 Establish “Yamagata University School of Nursing”
1997 Establish “Yamagata University School of Medicine, Nursing Master’s Program”
1999 Approval Certified Nurse Specialist Course; CNS, Child Health Nursing and PsychiatricNursing（Master of Nursing）
2007

Establish “Yamagata University School of Medicine, Nursing Doctoral Program”

2008

Approval CNS ; Gerontological Nursing

2009

Approval CNS ; Home Health Nursing

2012

Establish “Yamagata University School of Nursing, Midwifery course”

2017

Approval Nurse Practitioner education program (Master of Nursing)2023

Approval CNS ;Infection Control Nursing

Undergraduate
Statement of Philosophy / Curriculm Policy
1.

We foster individuals who have a strong sense of humanity and integrity.

2.

We foster individuals who have a sense of basic human rights and of the dignity of life.

3.

We foster individuals who can provide many kinds of nursing services while collaboratingwith and contributing to a variety of medical service teams.

4.

We foster individuals who can practice a change in role, tasks, and obligation of a nurse as1

circumstances demand, while practicing sensitivity amid changes in social conditions andthe environment of people.
1. Nursing Courses1）Approach for Progress of the Clinical Nursing Competence
We give students the title of “Student Nurse.”
Students need to pass an objective structural clinical examination(OSCE) and receive the necessary credits required to qualify as“Student Nurse.”
Medical staff members at the Yamagata University Hospitalenable students to acquire clinical nursing competence througheducation. Students acquire the sense of responsibility and mission
carried by medical practitioners, and they share in the pursuit
toward advancing clinical nursing competence2) Public Health Nursing Course
We foster individuals who can support the objective of improving
the quality of life and health of all people. Subjects, from infants tothe aged, and those living with illnesses and disability or healthypeople in local communities, are provided the health care they needwithout discrimination.
3) Midwifery Course
We foster individuals who are equipped with midwifery diagnosis
and clinical midwifery competence, as well as the ability to support
women, neonatal patients, and families in leading peaceful lives.
We provide a Midwifery Leading-edge Skills Laboratory to develop
people who possess advanced knowledge and skills necessary to use

2advanced and complex medical technology properly.

Graduate School
The Master’s Program
Diploma Policy
The School of Nursing Master’s Program establishes, as its principal
objective, the contribution to the healthy growing and aging of people ingeneral. For this goal, we nurture gifted educators, researchers andprofessionals who are provided with basic research capabilities so thattheyareable

toexplainnursing phenomena

theoreticallyandsystematically, based on ethics and scientific evidence.
1.

We foster individuals who have a sense of basic human rights and ethical values, and also theability to help people make a proper self-determination.

2.

We foster individuals who are equipped with basic capacity for research that enables them toelucidate and solve problems about nursing, practical skills, and nursing systems in terms ofscientific theories.

3.

We foster individuals who can collaborate with and contribute to interdisciplinary teams,including international ones, while providing many kinds of nursing services.

Certified Nurse Specialist Course (CNS)Child Health Nursing Course

Gerontological Nursing Course

Infection Control Nursing Course

Child Health, Gerontological and Infection Control Nursing course within Certified Nurse Specialistcourse (CNS)play an active role in advanced practical nursing skills in specific fields andareas, including counseling, care coordination, education, research, and ethical regulation.

Nurse-practitioner Education Program (NP)

These curricula train advanced nurse practitioners in combining care and cures in patients,
providing treatment autonomously within a certain scope or performing preventive interventions,and providing outstanding direct care. Primary care nursing curricula are available.

Intensive Course
Home Palliative Care Course
We provide a practical education program that comprises lectures supported by our e-learningplatform, hospital practice, and home visitation.
3The Doctoral program
Diploma Policy
The doctoral program is designed to promote the development of theories
and practice, system establishment, and human resources training as
advanced nursing professionals with research-oriented attitude, in order toimprove the quality of nursing and long-term care for advanced aging
societies.
1.

We foster individuals capable of developing research and practice that guarantees thesafety and quality of nursing.

2.

We foster individuals capable of developing research and practice that supports the mental
health and development of children, or which improves the health of the elderly, supports
the frail elderly to live with independence and dignity, and provides high quality home carefor the disabled elderly and their families.

3.

We foster individuals capable of developing research and practice for the development ofbasic theories of disease prevention and life support for the elderly, based on the aging
theory and nursing pharmacology.

4Department (Master of Nursing)5

Department (Doctor of Nursing)

Professorial Chairs
Course of Fundamental Nursing
The department of fundamental nursing provides students with education relating to anatomy,
physiology, pharmacology, and microbiology, as well as an introduction to basic nursing and its
methodology, in addition to training in physical assessment, risk management, and administrationof clinics and nursing homes. The department also seeks to implement the pedagogical art ofnursing to inculcate the necessities of professional nursing. Our mission is to help students develop
clinical judgment and/or practical skills required for efficient nursing.
The primary motive behind our divisional research is to contribute to the clinical safety
standards, while providing well-trained personnel to clinics and other medical environments. Our
research themes include the following: impart methodologies for clinical safety and preventing
medical accidents; teach the art of fundamental nursing effectively; develop a practical skill,provide continuous education, human resource, and career development; improve the policy fornursing; ensure team medical care; supplement the basic study of wounds and diseases, theircauses, preventions as well as knowledge on reducing the adversities experienced during cancer
therapy or lifestyle diseases.
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Course of Clinical Nursing
Course of Clinical Nursing provides a variety of attractive nursing programs for botheducation and research in relation to various clinical settings. This course is comprised of 4 sectors
listed below, which include Adults and Gerontological Nursing (Acute care), Adults andGerontological Nursing (Chronic care), Child Health and Maternity Nursing, and PsychiatricNursing.
1. Adults and Gerontological Nursing (Acute care): We are focusing on both acute care and homecare for medical technology-dependent patients and their families to improve social andphysical problems for their better life.
2. Adults and Gerontological Nursing (Chronic care): We are focusing on a professional care forrehabilitation, dementia and cancer, as well as an End of Life (EOL) care to promote a better
quality of life.
3. Maternal and Child Health Nursing: In the child health unit, we are focusing on nursing carefor children with neuroses or psychosomatic disorders, and their family members. In thematernity unit, the developments of concrete nursing actions to maintain and promote awomen’s health throughout their life are now in progress.
4. Psychiatric Nursing: We are attempting to understand impairment, disability and handicaps
that are relevant to mental disorders by learning the appropriate system to deal with thosepatients. In particular, the interventions to both patients with mental and/or psychosomatic
disorders and their supporters are important.

Course of Community Health and Home Health Nursing
Course of Community Health Nursing focuses on the education and research of Home HealthNursing and Public Health Nursing, we are doing the education and research on support improve
the quality of life of their families and the people who are under medical treatment at home. In
addition, we are doing the education and research on the system of visiting nurses. Public HealthNursing, we are promoting education and research in the about nursing to support all people’s
health, and to improve the Quality of Life. The objects of nursing are contained in sick person or not
only disability person but healthy person.

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As of Oct, 2022

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