看護学部教育における生理実習の導入

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In nursing education, physiology stands as the basic science to understand the structure and function of the human body. But it holds difficulties because of low participation of scientific subjects (i.e. physics and chemistry) in the entrance examination, and early start of study of physiology after entrance to school usually with weak motivation for it. To assist for the students to learn physiology more easily and firmly, we introduced experiential (practical) studies. Among total class work time of 135 hours (5 units)of the subjects "Structure and function of the human body", 16 hours were assigned to practical learning. The items of Physiology practices includes "Elements of blood and understanding of anemia", "Measurement of composition of body with impedance method using InBody 3.0, "Spirometry and respiration", in which students studied on their own bodies. As for laboratorical works, they did "Preparation and dilution of aqueous solutions and introductory study on buffering solution" and "Excitability of nerve and muscle, and muscle contraction"(mainly demonstration by teacher). In addition, students had 4 hours of class work of anatomical study to investigate pre-dissected corpora of volunteers in Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Jichi Med.Univ. In this report, basic statistical data for body compositions of 300 subjects (288 females, 12 males) with permission by informed consent are presented. They consist of body weight, ICF, ECF, mass of protein, mass of bone, mass of body fat, mass of muscle, BMI, BMR and others. [J Physiol Sci. 2006;56 Suppl:S246]