The Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing

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The Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing sincerely explores nursing science, both in theorizing and practice, in a much broader context of "humanity." All Red Cross activities are based on this principle, which, as you all know it, amounts to the way human beings should be. Despite its apparent familiarity, however, it is not always easy to be humanitarian. While pursuing nursing inquiry, we must always face all the difficulties that might intrinsically accompany this academic enterprise.

Based on the Red Cross principles, we aim to nurture human resources possessing the skills necessary to carry out nursing and conduct research into nursing practice, develop strongly humane, broadly educated people who are capable of helping people and contributing to international society.

Considering this in terms of actual medical settings, healthcare professionals must bear in mind an essential prerequisite that every possible effort be made to preserve the dignity of and protect the lives of those in desperate need of care and treatment. The most significant emphasis should then be placed on the idea that humans are individually unique, with their life histories, preferences, values widely differing from each other. We could never achieve our objective without understanding how diverse individual uniqueness will be.

Studies of nursing science include anthropological research and should develop itself with insights gained in other academic disciplines, such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, necessary medicine, and clinical medicine.

The College traces her history back to 1890 when the Red Cross Society started a program to foster nurses. There remains an official document that shows that in 1891 the first graduates were dispatched to give their helping hands to those suffering in the big earthquake. The Red Cross nursing education aims to provide care and relief, not only in peacetime but in disaster. In 1986 we started a four-year curriculum to be qualified as College and have ever since been engaged in human resources development in domestic/overseas disaster support and public health.

March 11th, 2011, witnessed the Quake that deprived thousands of people of their lives, devastating the beautiful region in such a way that we could barely remember its original configuration. Along with a chain of support provision from overseas, various domestic relief groups, including the Red Cross Rescue Party, doctors, nurses, pharmacologists, administrative staff, and graduates of the College have been formed to be part of the rescuing project.

Human beings' dignity does not vary in time, place, occasion, nationality, or race, nor is it impinged by the kind or quality of health problems for each individual. Where there is a will, passion, enthusiasm, authentic knowledge, and wisdom, there is a way.

Educational Objects and Goals:

• Increasing the necessary abilities to engage with others and awareness and sensibilities to understand that each human being's existence is irreplaceable and has inherent worth.
• By cultivating the necessary abilities to defend human dignity and human rights and take action informed by ethical decisions.
• By cultivating the necessary abilities to assess and respond to various health issues.
• Cultivating basic abilities to provide necessary nursing care to people who suffer critical health problems due to rapid natural and social changes.
• By cultivating the necessary abilities to cooperate with specialists in various fields to develop interdisciplinary activities and play an active role in creating new forms of community health and welfare.
• By cultivating the necessary abilities to work with an international viewpoint and awareness of own role in a changing world, to contribute, through the practice of nursing, to society in Japan and overseas.
• By cultivating the necessary abilities for lifelong ongoing self-development in nursing practice, education, and research.
• By providing the knowledge and skills required to practice nursing as a profession with responsibility and pride while continually growing human beings.

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