2018 Volume 151 Issue 5 Pages 195-199
Anatomy, physiology or pharmacology is the important subject in nursing education. Nursing education is established in a law since 1951. Although the law is revised many times according to social situation, the subjects like physiology have been positioned as a basic specialized subject in the law now. Physiology is educated at 1st grade in most nursing school. However, there are some problems in educating physiology. First, academic ability in nursing students tend to decline recently. For example, there are some students who cannot solve simple arithmetic. They cannot calculate how much volume (mL) they have to aspirate injection solution to the syringe, when a doctor orders an injection medicine. Thus, there are increasing number of students who are not good at calculation. Second, they do not learn the technical term exactly. There are many names of pharmaceutical drug they must learn in pharmacology, some of which have similar names of pharmaceutical drug. If students do not learn them exactly, there is the possibility of causing a medical accident. Third, students learn something or an events from restricted one side. Therefore, they cannot answer the question they are asked from a different point of view. Furthermore, student cannot relate the knowledge they have learned with other knowledge. It seems that it must be important to have students understand how to utilize the knowledge in physiology or pharmacology in nursing practice at an early stage.
