Current status and future prospects of nursing education in Japan

Abstract

The Bachelor of Nursing program is being held at 255 universities in 2017. There are various initiatives universities to meet the needs of society, nurturing high-quality nurses, but securing the level of education is one of the tasks. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology established a nursing education model core curriculum for solving the problem. Each university is expected that the curriculum will be built with reference to this model core curriculum for quality assurance of education.