Clinical Pathophysiology of Nursing

Head of the Office: Masayuki Miyamoto MD, PhD

Message from the Head of the Office

     Clinical Pathophysiology of Nursing is an area in charge of lectures on " Clinical Medicine " in the specialized basic subject [health disorders and treatment] for second-year students in the Faculty of Nursing. Through lectures on pathophysiology, the students will learn about health disorders as the basis of nursing. It is necessary to practice scientifically-based nursing as a member of the medical team while comprehensively understanding the patients to be nursing, formulating assessments and nursing care plans, and developing and practicing the nursing process. Learn the medical knowledge that will be done.

Education (Subjects)

     In Clinical Medicine, the students will learn about health disorders along the system of body organs, and learn about symptoms, diagnostic tests, diagnostic criteria, prognosis, and treatments for each typical disease. You will learn about medical diseases in Clinical MedicineⅠ, surgical diseases in Clinical MedicineⅡ and pediatric, obstetric, gynecological, psychiatric, and neurological diseases in Clinical Medicine Ⅲ.

Students Research Interests

  • Relationship between music listening habits and sleep and stress
  • Sleep habit and factors of refreshed sleep in nursing students
  • Nursing Female students' awareness of coldness before bedtime and its relation between sleep and lifestyle and preventive measures-Analysis from a survey of female college students
  • Changes in sleep habits due to nursing practice and how to devise the impact on daily life and health of nursing students
  • The Effects of Sleep Apnea Syndrome and CPAP therapy on daily life activity

Faculty

Professor Masayuki Miyamoto MD, PhD

Contact

Department of Clinical Pathophysiology of Nursing
Dokkyo Medical University , School of Nursing
Kitakobayashi 880, Mibu, Shimotsuga, Tochigi, 321-0293 Japan
e-mail: miyamasa@dokkyomed.ac.jp