Research Center for Development of Nursing Practice
at St. Luke's College of Nursing
In 2003, St Luke's College of Nursing opened a Research Center for Development
of Nursing Practice in their new " No.2" building close to the
main campus yet easily accessible to the surrounding community.
The center's two goals are to identify the community's health issues and comprehend national and global social trends using a nursing perspective and to develop nursing approaches for solving or improving health issues by using partnerships with the community which includes evaluating developed nursing approaches based on outcome data.
The center has six roles:
- Promoting research on the development of nursing practice
- Supporting lifelong learning of the nursing professionals as well as lay
people
- Providing sites or opportunities to provide nursing practice
- Promoting international and interdisciplinary information or knowledge
exchange
- Supporting research
- Providing information
Five departments were created to accomplish the above roles:
- Nursing practice development research
- Educational research
- Nursing and health policy research
- International nursing collaboration research
- Continuing education
WHO Collaborating Centre
for Nursing Development in Primary Health Care
The St. Luke's College of Nursing has been designated as a WHO Collaborating
Centre for Nursing Development in Primary Health Care by the World Health
Organization since May, 1990. Professor Michiko Hishinuma, Dean, is the
Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre. The terms of reference in the WHO
Collaborating Centre are the following:
- To evaluate and develop further nursing practice models in Primary Health
Care (PHC) contributing to Millennium Development Goals as well as ageing
societies;
- To identify and promote nursing leadership in primary health care. Periodic monitoring survey on activities of newly developed master prepared certified community nurses as well as certified nurse-midwives in Japan, and related countries will be conducted;
- To research, develop, and disseminate best practice examples with evidence lead collaboration and empowerment of individuals and families and communities to regional and global peers, networks, and organizations; and
- To support research and system changes contributing to improve education and practice of nurses and midwives in PHC
St. Luke's Society of Nursing Research
This society, founded in 1996, joins alumni from all spheres of nursing
education and practice. Their purpose is to contribute to the academic
systematization of nursing with an emphasis on clinical practice. United
for the advancement of nursing science, members sincerely hope that their
academic studies and research in every field of nursing will be used to
promote the quality of education and nursing care.
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