Graduate Programs in Nursing Sciences at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences of the University of Tsukuba

Clinical Nursing Area

【Development Support Nursing】

Focusing on maternity and infant development support and on subjects with health problems and their family, this field is exploring nursing interventions. For a nursing practice adapted to the type of care and needs, we investigate scientific nursing from comprehensive perspective including the cognitive side such as factors having influence on health/life behaviors and human reactions.

【Health Problems Nursing】

We also organize lectures or exercises focusing on nursing related to prevention or recovery for people facing health problems in our Clinical Nursing Area. Specifically, classes are held by teachers specialized in studies related to health problems such as cancer or mental disorders or related to the patient in end-of-life as well as his family.

≪Key Research Topics≫

＊Health problems and support to women during puberty and adolescence.
＊Nursing support to reduce parenting stress or mother-child relationship support.
＊Research on Informed Assent for children.
＊Studies on infant and family confronted to an End-of-Life situation.
＊Development studies on functional disorder of patients with chronic diseases and their family.
＊Research on nursing interventions on cancer patients, cancers survivors and their family.
＊Research on nursing in order to increase self-efficacy for people with mental disorder and their family.
＊Development studies of rehabilitation nursing interventions and evaluation methods in psychiatry.

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Health Care Systems in Nursing Area

【Community Health Systems Nursing】

Based on the principles of health promotion, this area explores group practical nursing at school, in a community or at work place. This area is building community health systems in cooperation with health, medicine and welfare by inspecting scientifically improvements of the QOL of individuals, families or groups living in community and as well as achievements of healthy lifestyle.

【Home Healthcare Nursing】

Paying attention to nursing problems occurring during the environmental transition of the transfer of the sick person from the medical facility such as hospital to home, we explore methods to organize and support a life environment so as to prevent from lifestyle diseases and to improve the QOL of the people living with a chronic disease.

【Environment-focused Nursing】

We conduct studies and provide education based on fieldwork practice or nursing theories and models by examining the efficacy of nursing equipment, measuring environmental infection inside medical treatment facilities, considering the health care environment from architectural and psychological point of views, assessing remote nursing, challenging an environment with amenities such as colors, sounds and fragrance and putting into question nursing in terms of time and space such as biological impact of environmental factors, sleep, safety or comfort.

≪Key Research Topics≫

＊Life-span development and environment.
＊International comparative studies on care system.
＊Evaluation of public health policies and programs employing epidemiological methods.
＊Research on supporting methods to stimulate activity of patients suffering from the disorder of consciousness called persistent vegetative state.
＊Methods to coordinate and support life environment in order to prevent from lifestyle diseases.
＊Nursing Ergonomics.
＊Physiological effects of environmental factors.
＊Research on Telenursing.
＊Impact of care techniques and alternative therapy on the body.
＊Studies on school health and community health.
＊Research on the development of health promotion programs.
＊Research on Community Empowerment.

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