Home Care Nursing

Head of the Office: Yoko Hanazato, RN, PhD

Message from the Head of the Office

     In home care nursing, we utilize learning in basic fields, specialized basic fields, and specialized fields to comprehensively understand the home care patients and their families. We take a holistic view of home care patients and their families, learn about the system and utilization of social resources to support the continuation of home care from a viewpoint that emphasizes life, and issues according to the individuality of the patient. Students will learn how to solve problems, how to practice nursing, and how to support the way of life of the person.

Education（Subjects）

1. Home Care Nursing

Students will learn nursing practice methods based on the lives of home care patients and their families. Students will learn how to integrate health, medical care and welfare and tailored home nursing activities to maintain and improve the quality of life of home care patients and families of all ages, illnesses and disabilities.

2. Practicum in Home Care Nursing

Students will learn life-based nursing practice methods from the practice of home nursing for home care patients and their families. We understand the highly individualized nursing provision method that supports the continuation of home care by utilizing the environment and social resources surrounding the subject, and learn the basics of nursing that supports the subject's way of life. Students learn the role of nursing in home care.

Students Research Interests

  • Support provided by visiting nurses for families of diabetic home care patients with dementia
  • Current status of families caring for the elderly with dementia and support for visiting nurses
  • Employment issues for new graduate home-visit nurses who have found employment at home-visit nursing stations
  • Family experience leading to stable home life for medical care recipients

Faculty

Professor Yoko Hanazato, RN, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor Keiko Morita, RN, MSN
Assistant Professor Yukari Seki, RN, PHN, MSN

Contact

Department of Home Care Nursing
Dokkyo Medical University School of Nursing
Kitakobayashi 880, Mibu, Shimotsuga, Tochigi, 321-0293 Japan