Nurse Practitioner (NP) Promotion

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Promotion Team

OUNHS established the first NP Master’s course in Japan to educate and train nurse practitioners who can cooperate and collaborate with physicians. Our goal was to create a nurse practitioner system in Japan that would expand the scope of nursing activities in our country. Our team is establishing a role for the NP by providing our national government with actual evidence of the practice quality of our course graduates. We are the secretariat of the Japanese Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (JONPF), which is working to establish standard primary and critical care NP curricula. JONPF conducts an annual NP certification examination by third-party evaluators from Japan and abroad to ensure quality of practice. At present, over 400 nurses have passed the certification examination and are practicing nationwide in Japan. The establishment of our NP education program by our team has been a real turning point for the nursing and medical fields in Japan.