岐阜県立看護大学

Gifu College of Nursing focuses on the study of nursing science, which sustains the nursing profession including public health nurses, nurse-midwives, and nurse generalists. The ideal of the College is to educate students who can provide high quality nursing care for clients, and can solve problems with a sense of responsibility based on nursing science.

Basic nursing is taught at the baccalaureate program. Future nursing professionals need to obtain skills to meet the clients' health care needs and to expand their professional functions in solving various problems. Furthermore, nurses are required to collaborate with other professions and workers in areas of health, medical care, and welfare. In addition, nurses need to demonstrate leadership by coordinating with other health professionals. Developing both academic achievements and humanity, which is the basis of the nursing profession, is considered to be highly important in the College.

Gifu College of Nursing is a prefectural higher educational institute. Regarding the tasks of health, medical care, and welfare fields in Gifu prefecture, the faculty teaches creative problem-solving method from a theoretical background based on research and educates students to be a driving force for reform. In order to achieve these aims, the College pursues ideal health care that fits the local culture and lifestyle, and performs vigorous research activities concerning nursing practice. The College provides learning activities rich with practical and applied educational materials based on research findings. Nursing science is a discipline that requires nurses' continuous professionalism throughout their life. The College guides the students to the profession through its unique educational program.

The College's objective is to educate nursing professionals who have a basic knowledge and skills of human caring necessary for nursing practice. Furthermore, nurses are required to have accountability to solve nursing problems, and always be able to practice creative problem-solving activities.

Graduates of the College of Nursing are expected to:

• have the ability to practice as a generalist with the basic knowledge and skills necessary for nursing practice.
• develop a deep understanding of human beings regarding their daily life, and improve their judgment skills.
• have the ability to understand and support essential problem-solving competence of the clients and their family and local communities.
• have the ability to cooperate with other professions in health, medical care, and welfare arenas, with people living in the local area, and with people related to the person's care, such as the client's caretakers.
• develop a basic knowledge of nursing research in order to improve nursing practice through practicing nursing.

Upon their graduation, the students receive a degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Furthermore, the graduates of the college are eligible to take the national licensure examinations for registered nurses and public health nurses. On the completion of additional optional courses, the graduates are eligible for licensure as a school nurse and qualify to take the national licensure examination to be a nurse-midwife.