AA/AS in Nursing

This is the Department of Nursing at Obihiro Otani Junior College in Hokkaido. The department states its purpose as educating people who contribute to the local community and to the health and daily life of its residents. Students practise nursing skills repeatedly in the college's facilities, take part in simulation exercises in which local residents play the patients, and do clinical placements at hospitals and facilities centred on Otofuke and Obihiro. A department-specific subject explores how nursing knowledge can address community issues in the Tokachi region. Completing the nurse-training curriculum gives eligibility to sit the national nursing examination, and nurses may go on to schools for public health nurses or midwives. Nurses can also apply to designated school nurse-teacher training institutions. The page states a graduation requirement of 110 credits.