ブックタイトルThe Journal of Humanitarian Studies

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The Journal of Humanitarian Studies

Journal of Humanitarian Studies Vol. 4, 2015of St. Luke’s Women’s College were released by GHQ in 1953, the collaborative education was alsocompleted. Accordingly, the Japanese Red Cross Society determined its policy to establish a junior collegeand applied to establish the Japanese Red Cross Junior College for Women in 1953. With this application,the ninth students entered in 1953; graduating in 1956 and the Japanese Red Cross Women’s School wasconcluded. The total number of graduates was 351.5. Japanese Red Cross Junior College for Women (1954 ? 1986)The Japanese Red Cross Junior College for Women was established in April 1954. The establishing bodywas the Japanese Red Cross Academy. This Junior College’s objectives and missions were to train nursesserving social welfare through academic education of nursing, health and childcare based on the RedCross spirit. It offered a three-year nursing course, catering for a quota of up to 60 students per calendaryear. Subjects included general education, foreign languages, physical exercise and specialized subjects(including those related to the Red Cross), comprising more than 99 units in total and clinical practicefor 135 weeks. The faculty members included the President, three full-time professors, three associateprofessors and a few other key education staff. In addition, to enhance the practice contents, full-timeclinical instructors were sent from the Japanese Red Cross Society Central Hospital. As for the developmentof teaching materials, the nursing practice room, physicochemical laboratory, audio visual materials andother educational materials and facilities were enhanced thanks to the contribution from the RockefellerFoundation in 1954. Here, the college emblem, songs and uniform were newly created, while the buildingfor nurse training was initially retained for use and a new reinforced concrete building four stories’highfor new dormitory was constructed on the south side of Yoshin-ryo in 1959.In accordance with the establishment of the Japanese Red Cross Musashino Junior College of Nursing inJanuary 1966, the Japanese Red Cross Academy was approved by the Minister of Education, whereuponit was renamed to the Japanese Red Cross Central Junior College for Women. Due to the amendment ofregulations for Public Health Nurses, Midwifes and Registered Nurses, the entire scope of the educationalinstitutions in 1967 was revised. The main points included: 1) expanding the scope of basic education; 2)system classification of the nursing science framework; 3) reinforcing health education in nursing science;and 4) regulating the hours of practice. Ahead of this revision,“clinical instruction guidelines,”“individualpractical experience records”for students and“practice evaluation sheets”mainly targeting patients’nursing process were each created and utilized.As buildings of the Japan Red Cross Hospital lost the opportunity to be reconstructed due to the war, theywere subsequently unable to keep pace with medical technology and this decline also left them unableto meet fireproof standards. In response, it was decided to construct a new hospital as the Japanese RedCross Society Medical Center by integrating the Central and Maternity hospitals. The new school buildingand dormitory for students of the Junior College were completed in 1974. The school building had sevenstories above ground and one below, including a lecture hall, gymnasium, pool and other facilities whilethe dormitory had ten stories and was named Yoshin-ryo, following the dormitory name of the formerbuilding for education. Then, in 1976, the Japanese Red Cross Society Medical Center was completed.6. The Japanese Red Cross College of NursingThe Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing was approved in 1986 as the eleventh such four-year Collegethen established in Japan. Yasuko Higuchi, who graduated from the Japanese Red Cross Women’s Collegeand studied at the Teachers’College of Columbia University, played a central role in paving the way forthe reorganization to the College. Starting from the development of human resources qualified for facultymembers, efforts were made to get its establishment approved by the Ministry of Education with the aimof creating the curriculum as a model for nursing colleges in Japan. Until its form as a junior college,however, doctors who were also Directors of the Japanese Red Cross Society Medical Center were thensuccessfully appointed as President. Although professors used to be concurrently appointed as professors人道研究ジャーナルVol. 4, 201599