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Issues and challenges in nursing and nursing education in Japan.

Turale S, Ito M, Nakao F

In this editorial we discuss the challenges and issues in nursing and nurse education in Japan.These include a rapid growth in the number of universities offering nursing programs without sufficient time for preparation of faculty; issues in the traditional ways of teaching in classrooms; the appearance of nursing shortages in a country with the highest rate of longevity in the world; and the position of nursing faculty in a society that is largely male dominated.

Published 18 December 2007 in Nurse Educ Pract, 8(1): 1-4.
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