Nursing Division

Introduction
As the number of cancer patients increases, the need for accurate diagnosis and innovative treatments will also increase. Higher nursing standards are required to meet these various needs. The Nursing Division has set out the following basic principles.
1. To establish good rapport between patients and nurses, in an effort to adequately ascertain patientsﾕ needs.
2. To provide supportive nursing care
3. To find the essence of nursing, and to make efforts to improve ourselves as human beings.
4. To encourage ongoing progress and reform in our activities in order to be optinal professional health care providers for cancer patients.
We, as nurses, need to provide care that focuses on the individual patient and his or her routine activities. We continually strive to improve our medical services to make our patients and their families as comfortable and satisfied as possible.

Routine Activities
We, 232 registry nurses and 35 nursing aides, are involved in the nursing care of 382 outpatients and 385 inpatients per day, respectively. The outpatients visit the clinics of 18 departments and/or are treated at the day care unit which has 20 beds. The inpatients are assigned to 10 wards specializing in the organ with cancer. Therefore, patients can readily receive intensive care in their wards, regardless of which therapeutic modalities are used.
In order to provide a higher quality of nursing care, we annually formulate nursing objectives, evaluated at each department to assure that the following yearﾕs goals meet the ultimate aim of improving our services.
The nursing consultation service was established in 1995, with the aim of supporting home nursing care. The activities of the overseas training committee in our division include accepting trainees from Southeast Asian countries and collecting information on nursing research from all over the world.

New Developments
1. We presented a special lecture entitled ﾒNursing practice and consideration of the alleviation of pain and stress in palliative care for cancer patientsﾓ at the joint multi-TV medical conference, with 11 participating institutions, on July 27, 1997.
2. In order to accept the first nursing students at Noda School of Nursing in Chiba into our hospital as a practice teaching institution in July, 1998, we have planned teaching and instruction methods, according to the program for actual nursing practice. We have taken into consideration factors such as the educational principles of Noda School of Nursing, the practical objectives, the meaning of this practice, the characteristics of youth, and the newly improved curriculum.
3.We presented nine research papers including six published in Japanese.

(H. Tamura)

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