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

Specialized Training to Become a CNS Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing

The training program to become a CNS Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing is provided as a part of the cancer specialist training plan“Wide Kanto multi-fields cancer specialist team training baseJapanese website”promoted through the cooperative efforts of Chiba University, University of Tsukuba, Saitama Medical University and Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences. Classes for this project are mainly provided through an e-learning system. Some of the classes for the training program to become a CNS Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing have also introduced e-learning system, allowing students to learn anytime, anywhere and any number of times. Furthermore, students have free access to viewing e-learning subjects other than nursing, so they can study areas of interest on their own initiative.

Cancer specialist training plan

The training program to become a CNS Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing is aiming at fostering clinicians endowed with a broad knowledge and high discernment by providing theoretical knowledge such as practical nursing, education, counseling, management, ethics and research as well as supporting education to increase overall problem-solving skills in the complex field of cancer care.

Training program to become a CNS Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing Japanese website

Faculty: Michiyo Mizuno, Masami Satoh, Tomoyo Sasahara

Information: Tomoyo Sasahara tsasahara@md.tsukuba.ac.jp


Prospective Certifications CNS Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing
Certification Requirements
  • 1.Nursing license
  • 2.Five or more years of internship (three or more years in one's specialized field of nursing and six or more months of internship after the program)
  • 3.Graduates of a Master’s program at a graduate school of nursing with credits (total of 26) of curriculum criteria for CNS Certified Nurse Specialist designated by the Japanese Association of Nursing Programs in University
Name of Certifying Organization Japanese Nursing Association (JNA) http://www.nurse.or.jp/index.html Japanese website
*For detailed information on CNS Certified Nurse Specialist, visit the JNA Web site. details Japanese website