Undergraduate Education at OUNHS

Undergraduate Education at OUNHS

OUNHS specializes in four-year nursing education and practice. We were the first in Japan to introduce a full four-year undergraduate curriculum based exclusively on registered nurse education. Our graduates have the professional nursing knowledge and practical ability needed to provide quality care for a wide range of medical and health needs. 

Our curriculum offers four-year parallel instruction in both nursing science and basic health sciences as a broad foundation for the study of nursing. It features five stages of four-year clinical nursing practicums and nursing skill labs that are completed in order according to student learning levels.

The curriculum emphasizes: (1) increasing professional nursing knowledge and technical abilities; (2) facilitating learning through self-study; (3) improving proficiency in anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and microbiology; (4) reinforcing anatomical physiology, clinical pathology and clinical pharmacology; and (5) reinforcing hands-on practice in specialty fields through comprehensive nursing seminars.  

The curriculum develops: (1) science-based nursing judgement and practice skills; (2) nursing management skills based on theory and practice; (3) learning motivation through student-centered support; (4) ability to think about nursing from a community perspective; and (5) interest and understanding of global nursing issues.

The curriculum features: (1) a home visiting practicum to older adults so students learn their preventive care needs; (2) an elective course to train specially-qualified school nursing teachers in charge of the health care and health education of children; (3) sophomore health science experiments so students can experience the actual mechanisms of the living body; and (4) senior graduation thesis research so students learn to recognize, analyze and solve problems from multiple perspectives through research.