BA/BS in Community Nursing

The Community Nursing major at Iida Junior College is a small-group programme focused on becoming a public health nurse. On campus, students receive individual guidance and practise public health nursing activities such as home visits and health education for people from babies to older adults, including assessment and planning, before going out on placement. Placements include municipal health offices, where students shadow working public health nurses for a period of about one month, and also public health centres, medical institutions, workplaces, educational institutions and welfare agencies. The qualifications listed are eligibility for the public health nurse national examination, a second-class school nurse teaching licence with credits obtainable at the college, and a first-class occupational health manager licence by application after passing.