Master in Nursing

Graduate program courses consist of the 3 areas of 'The Field of Basic Nursing', 'The Field of Common Foundation', and 'The Specialized Fields'.

'The Field of Basic Nursing' is made up of 5 compulsory subjects, and in order to cultivate specialist practical nursing skills, they form the foundation of each of the specialized fields.

'The Field of Common Foundation' constitutes 10 elective subjects, providing students with a wide range of insights and offering multi-disciplinary perspectives and learning opportunities that can be put to use in nursing practice.

'The Specialized Fields' consist of the 9 domains of Nursing Management, Basic Nursing, Maternity, and Child Health Nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Adult Health Nursing, Oncology Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, and Community Health Nursing, each of which is studied through between 4 to 8 taught courses and practical seminars. In regard to assignments and research in each domain, students are able to deepen both their practical and theoretical understanding by choosing to explore their own particular areas of interest.

Niigata College of Nursing has launched the career of many nurses, public health nurses, and midwives both within Niigata prefecture and all across Japan since our inauguration in 2002 with the educational and research mission of “nursing study rooted in the local community culture”, and with the founding spirit of “establishment of comfortable and high-quality lifestyles”.

Compassion is a core factor in nursing, and the fostering of a rich heart that can share in people’s joys and sorrows and value the importance of life is at the top of our educational goals. From the first year of study, we incorporate a system of small group learning and support the acquisition of skills of self-directed learning, and from early on in their studies, practical fieldwork studies are conducted where students interact with members of the community. After entering nursing specialties, students are taught the specific knowledge and skills required for the nursing profession, and through clinical training, the students continue to develop their practical nursing skills. In their final year of study, fourth-year students complete a dissertation by exploring a theme by following a research process.

It is a strength of our nursing college that we are able to deliver attentive instruction through the closeness of faculty staff and students and that students learn from each other with the common goal of being a nurse.

Furthermore, we promote education that broadens our students’ horizons both domestically and globally, including exchanges with the Joetsu University of Education, here in Joetsu city, and through overseas training programs with partner universities and medical institutions in Vietnam and New Zealand. In 2018, our university established a doctoral course that follows on from the graduate school master's program. Currently, in Japan, there is an increasing expectation for nursing professionals to have studied nursing at a university or further, a graduate school. It is our hope to cultivate the ability to continue pursuing nursing, with our college as the starting point of the lifelong learning that the nursing industry now demands.