This college opened as the first Nursing College (Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing) in Mie Prefecture in 1997, to serve as a base for nursing education and research in the prefecture. Furthermore, in April 2001, we opened the first nursing-related Graduate School (master's course in nursing studies) in Mie Prefecture, putting in place the foundation of an institution for higher nursing education. This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening, during which time we have produced more than 1,500 graduates as nurses, public health nurses, and midwives.
A nursing university conducts research activities to establish new knowledge about nursing science, transmits currently established knowledge of nursing science to students, and explores nursing phenomena that have not yet been elucidated. Although nursing phenomena can be pursued from various viewpoints, a faculty of nursing will explore nursing from working nurses' viewpoint. Therefore, studying at a faculty of nursing corresponds with acquiring the skills necessary for a nursing career.
Our college has achieved an educational environment where students learn not only the specialized knowledge and skills of nursing but also how to understand people with diverse ideas and various backgrounds, a broad range of cultural knowledge to facilitate communication, an attitude to keenly pursue the kind of nursing that accords with the current situation and health needs of society, the ability to analyze accumulated information, the abilities required to build teams and to work in teams, etc.
Our college, founded by Mie Prefecture, is obliged to develop human resources to improve the prefecture's health level. To that end, our mission is to train high-quality professionals with universal knowledge who can contribute to the development of nursing and the improvement of health, medical care, and welfare in the global society beyond prefectural and national borders.
The nursing scene is continuously faced with new issues due to advances in medical devices and techniques and societal changes. Their solution depends on nursing professionals and medical welfare workers, and above all, on whether users can share know-how and develop and utilize new technologies and mechanisms. This is where the significance of a nursing university establishes new knowledge of nursing through research. Please use our college as a nursing base that can progressively overlay primary education, graduate school education, and continuing education.
We aim to offer an education based on high-minded humanity and a broad outlook, which will provide our students with the knowledge and skills needed to answer all the nursing care needs of people, to improve their lives from the beginning to the very end. We also aim to endow our students with the comprehensive skills required in nursing practice so that they can operate over a broad spectrum of society to improve people's health, medical care, and welfare. Furthermore, we endeavor to foster nursing educators and researchers who can make substantial contributions to nursing research and scholarship advancement.
Educational Aims:
- To promote the capacity to think and act flexibly with a real understanding of people, firmly based on an ethical view of life's dignity.
- To impart the specialized knowledge and skills needed to answer people's nursing needs over the entire range of their lifespan.
- In health and welfare areas, to foster the ability to respond effectively as nurses to community health care needs, in collaboration with other occupations.
- To promote the ability to practice nursing in a way responsive to local needs by understanding the community's cultural life and history.
- To encourage a spirit of self-development and research, which will help to systematize and develop nursing science.
- To facilitate action from an international perspective through the enhancement of intercultural understanding and communication.
The rapidly aging population, changing health care environment, and transformation in the content and scope of nursing activities have led to a requirement for nurses to have and their specialized knowledge and techniques, pragmatic skills, and flexible decision-making abilities to deal with the fast-changing society. Mie Prefectural College of Nursing contributes to the improvement of health care and welfare through its role as a center of research and education by positively promoting nursing education and research tailored to its region, training high-quality nursing staff who answer the needs of society in many areas.
