Tokyo Women's Medical University

Graduate School of Nursing

Community Nursing

Overview

People with diverse health, lifestyles, and values live in communities, and their health and welfare needs are becoming more diverse. Community nursing targets individuals, families, groups, and regions, and nursing activities take place in a variety of fields, including public health (government), home care, and industry.
In an aging society with a declining birthrate, the issues faced by the target population are becoming increasingly complex and diverse, and in order to solve these issues, the nursing profession requires high-quality nursing practice and research skills based on scientific evidence, team care and networking to meet diverse needs, and the qualities as community nursing professionals who can build and implement comprehensive community care systems.
Therefore, students will learn various support methods (individual, group, organizational, and community support) to enhance the quality of practice according to the needs and problem solving of various subjects of community nursing, theories, development methods and evaluation of health promotion and health education, nursing development through participation of the concerned parties, and practical research methods such as action research. Our program aims to develop human resources who can explore practical and research methods to solve problems on their own, based on domestic and international health issues, trends in community nursing, previous research in related fields, and theories and methods related to community nursing.

Possible Research Themes

We are engaged in research related to quality improvement and evaluation of support for subjects at all developmental stages and with various health issues, such as development and evaluation of methods, support and effectiveness of community comprehensive care systems and care prevention, such as effective development and evaluation of health promotion and health education through collaboration among residents and related parties, quality improvement of support based on assessment and evaluation in community nursing, individual and group health support through action research, support and evaluation of individual and group meetings to prevent child abuse, development and evaluation of methods to improve the quality of home care, and support and effectiveness of comprehensive community care systems and long-term care prevention.
We are also involved in the development of records and educational programs to visualize and share the thought process of support activities for public health nurses and nurses working in the fields of administration and home care. You can select a research theme from a wide range of perspectives based on your own experience and interests.

Faculty

Yoko Shimizu

Doctoral Dissertation Themes

- Fathers' experience of empathy and its association with health-related quality of life during the wife's pregnancy and two months postpartum: a quantitative and qualitative study
- Proposal of a comprehensive approach to the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases in the Self-Defense Forces

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