Japanese Red Cross Toyota College of Nursing

Based on the humanitarian spirit of the Red Cross, doctors and nurses are dispatched to disaster areas to work as members of relief squads both in Japan and overseas.

We have adopted the fundamental principles of the Red Cross as our school philosophy to advocate humanitarian spirit. Thus, our education curriculum consists of five major concepts: human beings, environment, health, nursing, and the Red Cross. We provide courses including Disaster Nursing and Disaster Relief, which correlate with nursing studies in each area of specialization.

Medical providers are required to have a warm heart, calm and accurate judgment, and reliable skills. In order to meet such requirements, they need to have sufficient knowledge and powers of observation. These fundamental concepts are taught during basic nursing education, which leads to and develops actual nursing skills. Needless to say, more than anything, it is important that each student maintains the attitude to continue independent and active learning.

The code of conduct of nursing activities by the Red Cross shall be based on the fundamental principles of the Red Cross:humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.
Based on an international perspective, we will protect people’s life, and respect the dignity and rights of an individual.

We will accomplish the aim of colleges, “As a center of academic activities, colleges should provide people with a wide variety of knowledges, teach and conduct extensive research on specialties, and develop intelligent, moral and application abilities of students.” (School Education Act Article 83) In addition, we will proliferate the belief of the Red Cross, which is based on humanity, our spirit of the foundation.

Thus, we will nurture people who can independently act to provide well-balanced scientific nursing based on the principles of the Red Cross. These people shall be sensitive and socially adjustable. In addition, they should have the basic abilities to practice nursing activities respecting individuals in the area of health, medical, welfare services and relief programs in Japan and abroad. We set a target to develop nurses who can contribute to the education of nurses and the progress of researches in the future.

The nursing activities shall be, regardless of nationality, race, belief, political and social position, about solving health issues of targeted people according to their helath level.Our spirit of the foundation shall be, in principle, the humanity based on these Red Cross principles.

Please imagine yourself after graduation. You might be working as an emergency personnel member or talking and smiling to children in a pediatric ward. You will spend four years studying at our college to transform your dream into reality.

Purpose of education:

• We will develop nurses who can practice the humanitarian principle of the Red Cross.
• We will cultivate the abilities to develop the human relationship being mentally matured and independent.
• We will develop the capabilities to judge accurately fact, extract issues and creatively solve them.
• We will train the ability to provide care considering scientific and ethical judgment based on the foundation of nursing.
• We will make students realize their social responsibilities, encourage them to learn throughout their lives and develops their skills to cooperate with other specialists.
• We will develop human resources that are always interested in the world affairs and have the ability to contribute to the international society by practicing nursing activities.