The Nurse Practitioner Master’s Course

The Nurse Practitioner Master’s Course

Course Characteristics

Japan is a rapidly aging society with increasing end-of-life care cases, dementia cases, older adult households and older adults living alone. This is straining our medical, health and welfare systems and will generate soaring medical and healthcare costs in the future.

OUNHS established the first NP Master’s course in Japan to expand the scope of nursing practice to address these issues. Our graduates provide a higher level of care based on medically sound clinical reasoning and advanced ability in physical assessment, pharmacology and pathology.

Our graduates improve overall workplace efficiency by raising the level of nursing care, improving communication in medical teams, and increasing patient-family security by being able to offer more frequent and comprehensive consultation.

We are educating and training autonomous NPs with separate specialties in pediatric nursing and geriatric nursing to provide primary health care in community medicine. Our NP course graduates have the following seven essential competencies:

1) comprehensive health assessment skills, including ordering medical tests
2) management of medical procedures, including drugs
3) advanced nursing practice skills
4) capable care management skills
5) multidisciplinary collaboration skills
6) practical skills to efficiently use the health and welfare systemss
7) ethical decision-making skills

Course Curriculum

Our curriculum provides students with high quality training in primary care, specialized medical knowledge, clinical reasoning ability and advanced practical and decision-making skills. Our graduates can conduct comprehensive medical and nursing assessments, manage client symptoms in collaboration with physicians and offer timely, safe and effective medical care.

During on-site training, physician and nurse clinical professors help our students to acquire practical clinical reasoning skills. Students are required to have six hundred hours of clinical practice to acquire practical skills and ability, which is the standard in the United States.

• Nurse Practitioner Master’s Course Syllabus [PDFファイル／180KB]

After Graduation

Graduates receive a nursing science master's degree and are certified as having completed designated training in specified medical practices. They are qualified to take the nurse practitioner certification examination and can practice as a nurse practitioner if they pass.

Our graduates work in general hospital wards and outpatient clinics, medical clinics, visiting nursing stations, special needs facilities for children, geriatric rehabilitation facilities and remote medical facilities.