Greetings from the President

Miyazaki Prefecture is largely mountainous and currently experiencing a high rate of population aging. Many residents of Miyazaki wish to both maintain their health and remain in their familiar surroundings indefinitely. To help meet this need, with the slogan Nightingale’s Dream for Miyazaki! Miyazaki Prefectural Nursing University started undergraduate nursing education in 1997 as the first public nursing university in Kyushu.

We transitioned to a public university corporation in 2017, strengthening our capacity as a core institution for nursing education, research, and training in Miyazaki Prefecture. As a nursing school, we strive to train highly-qualified nurses, contribute to community health care, and promote nursing research. Through these efforts, we collaborate with the local community to improve health, medical care, and welfare throughout the prefecture.

Since its inception, our undergraduate education has always been founded on Florence Nightingale’s nursing and theories of nursing education. Our educational philosophy is developing nurses who know the dignity of life, improve patients’ vitality, work with the heart and mind, and assist patients in self-care and self-management. The faculty provides the best education possible according to this educational philosophy while monitoring our students’ academic and social development.

To further develop human resources capable of pursing nursing expertise and the full range of nursing science, the Graduate School of Nursing established a Master’s degree program stemming from the undergraduate educational program in 2001, as well as a Doctoral program in 2005. With the creation of these programs, we have become the first university in Miyazaki Prefecture to provide Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees in nursing.

Moreover, while formerly provided through undergraduate education, our Midwifery program was transformed to a Special Course in Midwifery in 2017, and our Public Health Nursing education was expanded into a graduate program in 2022 in order to provide more specialized, well-rounded education.

We also work to promote lifelong learning and research for both prefectural citizens and nursing professionals through our Center for Nursing Research and Training, a community service center that has been in operation since the university’s founding.

Our university offers a learning journey which deepens understanding of the human subject of nursing and provides for the acquisition and development of the qualities necessary to become a nurse. Students will form their own perspectives on nursing while considering the question, “What is nursing?” To support this learning, our faculty and staff collaborate to create an educational environment valuing each individual student as they engage in their education.