DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

     We educate undergraduate nursing student and graduate student of master course. We deal with child development, children`s health, and nursing care for pediatric patients and their families.

1. Child Health Nursing

This class aims to understand the natural, social, cultural, and economic environment in which children and their families live, support for daily life and independence according to the growth and development stages of children, and children's rights, laws, and measures.
In addition, in this class, students will learn the physical and social development of children through simulation learning using children's dolls and group work.

2. Practicum in Child Health Nursing

This class is a practical training in pediatric nursing. The training locations are two pediatric wards, outpatient department, and Neonatal intensive care unit of Dokkyo Medical University Tochigi Children's Medical Center, and nursery school. This practice will deepen the students understanding of the child's growth and development process, its characteristics, and how to engage in consideration of the child's developmental stage. In addition, it is a practical training for children who have a health disorder and their families to take the initiative in tackling the health disorder and to understand the nursing and the relationship between the child and the family necessary to build a medical treatment life.

• Psychological changes in mothers with hospitalized children with cancer
• Nursing support for the process of acquiring medical treatment behavior for children with type I diabetes
• Factors that make it difficult for families to choose to stay at home as a place of treatment for children with severe physical and mental disabilities
• Family-centered care in the NICU (and its effectiveness)
• Parent stress of mothers with children with food allergies and the nursing support mothers expect

Nursing Education Center for Community Collaboration

Support group for sick children and their families "Tsubomi no Kai"
A support group for sick children, their families, and parents who have lost their children. It is a place where you can organize your feelings by talking with people who have had similar experiences, sharing experiences, we also participate in events related to childhood cancer with students. We make things in gatherings, sell and donate at events, and deliver Christmas wreaths to hospitalized children.

Child Hearth Nursing Career Support "ChilD"
We create a place to connect undergraduate nursing students who are interested in pediatric nursing with nurses who work in the field of health care related to children, and hold learning sessions to exchange information with each other.

Professor Miki Konishi  RN，PHN，PhD
Senior Assistant Professor Hisako Tamamura  RN，MSN
Assistant Professor Minako Koshikumo  RN，PHN，MSN

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