School of Nursing / Graduate & Undergraduate
UHE University of Human Environments, JAPAN

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Departments, Faculty & Research Activities

Graduate School of Nursing

Nursing Education & Management

Nursing Education

ProfessorEmiko SHINOZAKI
PhDRN
  • Nursing education
  • Physical assessment
  • Communication skill and Simulation-based education
ProfessorChiharu ITO
PhDRN
  • Nursing ethics both clinical and educational
Associate ProfessorTakako YAMAGUCHI
PhDRN
  • Fundamental nursing skills
  • Nursing education
  • Patient assessment
Associate ProfessorMiho HATTORI
MSNRN
  • Fundamental nursing skill
  • Nursing education

Practical Nursing

Health Management Nursing

ProfessorNakako FUJIWARA
Doctor of Medical ScienceMD, RN
  • Provision of nursing to connect hospitals and communities

End of Life Care

Associate ProfessorAkiko KATO
PhDRN
  • Palliative care, end-of-life care, cancer nursing, and family care for patients in the terminal stage

Life-span Human Development

ProfessorYasuko KAWANO
PhDRN
  • IADL and successful aging of the elderly
  • Elderly people cafe’ influence over social connection
  • Ethical equality in the health profession
ProfessorMeguru MINAMI
PhDRN
ProfessorMari SANAI
PhDRN
  • Support for quality of life in elderly
  • Influence of generativity to senior citizens' lives
  • Elderly care and learning support towards nursing students
Associate ProfessorNaoko BEKKU 
PhDRN
  • Supports of people with autism disorders and family members
  • Supports of physical and mental such as relation of autonomic function in person with mental disorder
ProfessorToshiko TOMIYASU
PhDRN, MW
  • Quantitative analysis of compliment for pregnant and puerperal women
  • Relationship between gender and recognition of date violence
ProfessorHisako FUKAYA
PhDRN
  • Reaction of parents to the birth and to their infant with a congenital malformation
Associate Professor Tomoko NAKAGAMI
MSNRN
  • Patient's needs and experience of nursing practice related to `explanation' and `implementation of treatment and care based on the patient's will'
Associate professorkaori SAKURAI
MSNRN
  • Nursing for the elderly person living at home
  • Nursing education about elderly person

Wide-area Nursing

Community Health Nursing

ProfessorAsami TATSUMI
PhDRN
  • Mental health and sleep health guidance
Associate professorEmiko HIGO
MSNRN
  • Advance care planning in nursing home for the resident

Global Health and Nursing

ProfessorMariko NISHIKAWA
BA (USA)/MPH (USA)RN (USA & Japan) Epidemiologist     
  • Global Health, Global Nursing Education
  • Epidemiology

Midwifery

Midwifery

ProfessorKafumi SUGISHITA
PhDRN, MW
  • Promoting Mother-to-Baby attachment to prevent postpartum depression
Associate Professor Michie TANIGUCHI
MSRN, MW
  • Care of perinatal women and their family
  • Receptive process of parents with children admitted to NICU

Undergraduate School of Nursing

Nursing Education

ProfessorEmiko SHINOZAKI
PhDRN
  • Nursing Education
  • Physical assessment
  • Communication skill and simulation-based education
ProfessorChiharu ITO
PhDRN
  • Nursing ethics both clinical and educational
Associate ProfessorTakako YAMAGUCHI
PhDRN
  • Fundamental nursing skills
  • Nursing education and patient assessment
Associate ProfessorMiho HATTORI
MSNRN
  • Fundamental nursing skills
  • nursing education
Senior LecturerMina OBAYASHI
MSNRN
  • Chronic heart failure
  • Developing a self-care evaluation scale
  • Qualitative assessment indicators of end-of-life care
Senior LecturerAi KURITA
PhDRN
  • Constipation of elderly people who have difficulty defecation

Health Management Nursing

ProfessorNakako FUJIWARA
Doctor of Medical ScienceMD, RN
  • Provision of nursing to connect hospitals and communities
Senior LecturerYumi KATO
MSNRN
  • Career development of nursing administrator.

Pediatric Nursing

ProfessorHisako FUKAYA
PhDRN
  • Reaction of parents to the birth and to their infant with a congenital malformation

Maternal Nursing / Reproductive Health Nursing

ProfessorKafumi SUGISHITA
PhDRN, MW
  • Promoting mother-tobBaby attachment to prevent postpartum depression
Associate Professor Michie TANIGUCHI
MSRN, MW
  • Care of perinatal women and their family
  • Receptive process of parents with children admitted to NICU
Senior LecturerKie HOSHI
MSNRN, MW
  • Midwifery care for women who choose epidural anesthesia delivery
Senior LecturerMisaki NABETA
MSNRN, MW
  • Women's health nursing
  • Reproductive health nursing
Senior LectureShoko MIZUNO
MMRN, MW
  • Evaluation of primary midwife-led care, women's satisfaction with midwifery care
Assistant professorYuko KAKEHI
MSNRN, MW
  • Sexual health promotion

Adult: Critical Care Nursing

Associate Professor Tomoko NAKAGAMI
MSNRN
  • Patient's needs and experience of nursing practice related to `explanation' and `implementation of treatment and respect the patient's needs
Associate ProfessorRyosuke BAN
MSNRN
  • Interprofessional education and perioperative nursing

Adult: chronical Care Nursing

Associate ProfessorAkiko KATO
PhDRN
  • Palliative care, end-of-life care, cancer nursing, and family care for patients in the terminal stage
Senior LecturerYoko HAYASHI
MSNRN
  • Oncology nursing, palliative care and end-of-life care
  • Advanced cancer and physician end-of-life discussions

Gerontological Nursing

Associate professorkaori SAKURAI
MSNRN
  • Nursing for the elderly person living at home
  • Nursing education of elderly person
Senior LecturerNatsuyo YAMAGUCHI
MSNRN
  • Supporting the independence of the elderly by making use of their strengths

Mental Health/ Psychiatric Nursing

Senior LecturerYoshihiro SUZUKI
MSNRN
  • The Experience of Adolescents with Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder,Well-being and satisfaction with life of nurses working at psychiatric hospital
Assistant professorSho NAGAI
MSNRN
  • Psychiatric nursing
  • Emotional experiences of nurses
Assistant ProfessorTakahiro KATO
BSN, MSNRN
  • Addiction

Home Care Nursing

Associate professorEmiko HIGO
MSNRN
  • Advance care planning in nursing home for the residents
Senior LecturerYoshie HARA
PhDRN
  • Safety of intramuscular injection techniques, care for complications caused by injection, and physical assessment of visiting nurses.
Assistant ProfessorShigeo OKUMURA
Master in health and medicineRN
  • Preferred end of life for end-of-life cancer in home nursing

Community Health Nursing

ProfessorAsami TATSUMI
PhDRN
  • Mental health and sleep health guidance
Assistant ProfessorNaomi TAKADA
MSNRN
  • Child care support to mothers of infants
Assistant ProfessorNobuko KOJIMA
MSNRN
  • Community activities of male elderly people

Global Health and Nursing

ProfessorMariko NISHIKAWA
BA (USA), MPH (USA)RN (USA & Japan) Epidemiologist
  • Global Health, Global Nursing Education and Epidemiology

Nurse Teacher

ProfessorNobumi MIYATA
PhD
  • The background that the children in Japan formed a view of life and death
Associate ProfessorNoriko MATSUBARA
Doctor of Health scienceRN, MW
  • Evidence of nursing practice by deriving changes in children's consciousness and behavior from the practice of nursing teachers

Liberal Arts/Sciences

Associate ProfessorYuki NISHI
BS, PhD
  • Macroscopic anatomy
  • Vascular mutations and parathyroid morphology
ProfessorMasami ASAYAMA
PhD
  • Problems with body temperature regulations in hot environment