Public health nurses are employed at various health / medical care / welfare institutions and facilities in the community. Community nursing involves all the people living in the community, including those suffering from disease or living with a disability, as they all try to maintain their respective health conditions.
　In the present age in which we live with its complicated social factors, every person or his/her close family is responsible for his/her health. There is a limit to how far healthcare professionals can become involved. Therefore, neighborhood networks and common interest groups of people sharing the same medical or other problems provide valuable links between people living in the community and healthcare professionals that are important for the future wellbeing of all.
　In the Department of Public Health Nursing of St. Luke’s International University, we are pursuing the theory behind public health nursing, applying pioneering educational and research activities befitting our times, including discussions between students and faculty, to basically consider how nurses can make an ever more useful contribution to society.