DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Head of the Office: Akemi Isoyama RN, PHN, MW, PhD

     In the Women`s Health Nursing, students will learn how to support a woman's lifelong health. Therefore, we provide a wide range of education, including not only maternal and child health problems and developmental tasks and nursing, mainly during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium, and neonatal period, but also puberty and menopausal health care, and changes in hormones in women's life stages.
     Since it is related to the mysterious and moving relationship of the birth of life, and the relationship with myself, my partner, and my family, I would like to consider assistance as a familiar thing and think together about nursing for each mother and child.

1. Maternal Nursing

In Maternity Nursing, students will study nursing support for maintaining and improving health for women and their families, focusing on the maternity cycle. Students will study physical and psychosocial changes in women, the process of fetal and newborn growth and development, adaptation to extrauterine life, and sexual health issues and assistance.

2. Health Promotion

In health promotion, students will learn the basic concept of health promotion activities and the role played by nurses. In addition, students will learn about support for local communities (communities) including individuals, families, groups, and organizations so that people who make up the community can voluntarily develop a healthy lifestyle.

3. Family Nursing

In Family Nursing, the entire family is regarded as one unit, and students learn about nursing support for maintaining and improving the health of the family. Understand the definition of family, family development, the crisis facing the family and the significance and methods of family assessment, and learn about preventive and supportive support aimed at improving the QOL of the entire family.

4. Practicum in Maternal Nursing

In Practicum in Maternal Nursing, we take charge of mothers and children in the maternity cyc and develop the nursing process. Understand the health of women who give birth and raise children and the families and societies that support them, and acquire basic nursing practice skills to promote the health of women, newborns, and families throughout pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium.

• Literature review on the psychological course and support of women who have had an abortion
• Literature review on the process and support for young pregnancies to continue pregnancy
• Meaning that the child witnesses the birth of the mother
• Experience of primiparas from unplanned pregnancy to continued pregnancy
• Experience of a woman who ended fertility treatment without having children

Professor Akemi Isoyama RN, MW, PhD
Associate Professor Yumi Akaba RN, MW, MSN
Associate Professor Kiyoko Mizuhata RN, MW, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor Hiroko Arai RN, MW, MSN
Senior Assistant Professor Keiko Nishioka RN, PHN, MW, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor Naoko Hikita RN, MW, PhD
Assistant Professor Rituko Iso RN, PHN, MW, MSN
 

Department of Women’s Health Nursing
Dokkyo Medical University School of Nursing
Kitakobayashi 880, Mibu, Shimotsuga, Tochigi, 321-0293 Japan