2000 Volume 30 Pages 29-40
This course is very different from a counterpart of a conventional nurse training school. This paper is a practical report on that course practiced in cooperation with the other related subjects at Kochi Gakuen College. Professional nursing II course involves a comprehensive teaching guide to clinical nursing and associated techniques. Professional nursing course I and III, in contrast, deal with the practical aspects of nursing, in which the students' activities, rather than a lecture by a teacher, are required in order to make the students have "a mind of professional nursing". In other words, they are required to find out what are the problems and how they should be solved, while reading assignment books and other related ones. The technique of making reports and publications they can get from other subjects, such as 'document of medical treatment' and 'studies of educational materials'. Through the series of these studies, students gain self-knowledge as a major in Health education, which will help them realize the importance of school-nurse teachers and go one step further for their own lifelong education. The effects of the course were more than I had expected and , hereby, I report the results together with the students' records of impressions.