School of Health Sciences Kumamoto University

Major

Clinical Nursing

Dept. of Adult Health Nursing

The Department of Adult Health Nursing targets adults, i.e., adolescents and fully mature adults. It aims to promote the skills needed to be able to provide nursing support during the wide variety of dynamic changes that occur in adult life and different stages in health. As such, in addition to having a pathophysiological understanding of adult health issues, we also educate students to be able to comprehensively understand psychological and social perspectives related to developmental issues and roles for individuals, families, and society.
Our approach towards nursing for adults involves education on nursing in response to crises, techniques to encourage patient-nurse interactions, guidance techniques to promote healthy activities in one's daily life, techniques for rehabilitation support, and end-of-life support nursing.

Dept. of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing

The Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing educates on nursing care through promotion of a biological and psychosocial understanding of people with mental disabilities and those who need mental and physical care in order to encourage individual self-care and improve quality of life. In order to understand others, you need to understand yourself. Therefore, we train students to become aware of themselves using psychodynamic theory and response construction method while training in mediation techniques and personal understanding in group dynamics from the understanding that we are all individuals who constitute a greater society.
The Department also educates on the role and function of psychiatric specialist nurses in interdisciplinary medical teams while pursuing development of the Community Based Case Management Model and the Assertive Community Treatment Model for people with mental disabilities.

Dept. of Nursing Practice

The Department of Nursing Practice aims to develop nurses who can combine their learned knowledge and skills to make decisions and act based on the nursing required. Students will focus especially on learning the methods for using their knowledge and skills to make comprehensive biological and psychosocial assessments of acute stage patients, and then decide on an order of priority for providing the necessary nursing and acting according to it. Students also learn about management in nursing as well.