Outline of the Program

In the global age, the improvement of the quality of the nursing in our country and that of the world is the focus to satisfy the needs of the International Society. Therefore, it is necessary to provide educational support for professionals who are involved in international nursing research, increase their superior education and research ability and to lead the nursing of the world. The result of the international professional education program is expected to be widely useful in developing nursing education, nursing research and practice in the world.
The purpose of this program is to execute "Academic Training" for the master of global knowledge and discernment and to provide education program for the nurse to become an international nursing educator and researcher, that is, the educational program for international nursing professionals.

Goals of Education

• Acquiring scholarly creativity to practice nursing education and research that is of international value.
• Acquiring skills for planning, negotiating, practicing nursing education and research that is of international value as well as mastering grant-writing skills for nursing research.
• Acquiring skills for practicing, educating and conducting research in the domain of nursing that has international applicability.
• Acquiring language skills for presenting and communicating nursing knowledge in education and research that is of international value.

Program Contents

• Develop an international e-learning system and communicate on international education and research with international scholars at the collaborating universities in such countries as the US, UK or Finland as well as other universities in Asia/Oceania regions.
• Improve the students乫 international language skills and communication capacity by offering classes and seminars led by foreign instructors.
• Provide classes and seminars to help students to write nursing research proposals in English.
• Provide classes and seminars to help students to write nursing research papers and/or theses in English.
• Provide special classes on skills for research grant writing in order to assist the students to conduct research independently.
• Send out students to international collaborating universities and other schools so that the students can learn about research and practicum overseas, as well as to promote active communications with international students, educators, researchers and practitioners.
• Develop audio-visual medias (such as DVDs) to help students to learn language and presentation skills in the field of nursing.
• Disseminate our achievements from this program in nursing education and research internationally.
  

Expected outcomes of the program

The following outcomes are expected from this program:

• Develop nursing educators/scholars with high ability in nursing practice, education and research with international standard.
• Develop, clarify, and disseminate the methodology of educating nursing educators/researchers with high capacity for international communication.
• Improve nursing care quality by applying the findings of this program to nursing education/research or to policy-making process.
• Develop and promote international networking among nursing educators, researchers, or practitioners in and out of Japan.
• Accumulating research findings in and out of Japan on cultural issues in nursing
• Disseminate and share our education/research findings internationally

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