Journal of Japan Society of Nursing Research

The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of 2 types of smoking prevention programs for student nurses. This study was conducted in 1993. The sample size was 271 female students of a nursing college. Self-administered multiple choice questionnaires were used at a pre-test (1 week before the lesson), a post-test (1 week after the lesson) and follow-up test (6 months after the lesson). The program consists of an 80-minute lesson, then advice for smokers with accompanying booklet. The lesson consists group-discussion, lecture and accompanying booklet. The conclusions were as follows:. The people who are interested in many part of lesson increased by methods changed. But the second program did not make more change knowledge and behavior, compare to the first program.

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We report on the combined curriculum contents of laboratories for a human anatomy and physiology course in the Faculty of Nursing at Shiga University of Medical Science. In addition, a total number of hours of lecture and laboratory work in similar nursing courses were surveyed at 17 colleges and 32 junior colleges in Japan, as well as syllabuses at two universities in North America.
Although there are only a few schools which focus on laboratory work in fundamental subjects in Japan, we assign 45 hours of laboratory work, including surface anatomy, upper and lower limb dissection, osteology, histological observation, rat dissection and group presentations of special directed anatomical studies. This type of practical instruction is one of the main characteristics of our nursing foundation courses. We expect nursing students to become interested enough in the function of the human body so as to continue to study physiological problems which concern nursing, and eventually to be able to become educators and researchers in this field.

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