The Department fosters professional nurses who can practice holistic nursing based on human dignity, contributes to health care, looks for well-qualified educators and researchers in the future, and then aims to develop nursing science. All graduates are qualified for the National Examination for Nurse Registration, and students who choose and complete an optional course are qualified for the National Examination for Public Health Nurse Registration.

Understand of human reactions towards health issues
Learn about mechanisms of health disorders, relationship between human and environment, nursing process.

Human reactions towards health issues and nursing
Learn about nursing through lectures and practice so that patients live quality of lives in families, communities, and health care systems.

Ability to develop high professional nursing and future nursing
Learn about high professional nursing research.

The department consists of 4 units: Fundamental Nursing, Clinical Nursing, Developmental Nursing and Community and Family Nursing. The Fundamental Nursing focuses on human understanding and fundamental knowledge for the practice, concept of nursing, nursing process, physical assessment, communication skills, nursing care and nursing administration. The Clinical Nursing covers nursing care for adult patients in acute, recovery, chronic and end of life periods. The Developmental Nursing specializes nursing care for children and their families and offers the expertise of women’s health and nursing care for pregnancy, delivery periods. The Community, Family and Gerontologic Nursing aims to maintain and develop the health of the whole community including not only individuals and families but also groups and organizations, provides nursing care for patients and elderlies at home, and focuses on healthcare activities and welfare system.