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Nursing Education Innovation Center

Nursing Education Innovation Center

This center was founded to improve excellence of nursing education by providing innovative education for undergraduate and graduate students as well as nurse practitioners to train excellent, prospective, and talented nurses.

It is supporting curriculum development and research to improve the quality of nursing education, as well as the research activities of the professors for expansion of up-to-date teaching and learning methods. Furthermore, it is developing and operating an educational training program for training nursing professionals in practical fields.

Big-Data & Smart-Care Center

Big-Data & Smart-Care Center

This center fosters formation of scientific nursing informatics by analyzing various big data in health sciences and construction of a big-data platform to analyze future health issues.

It also supports the industrialization of nursing by applying new participatory medical technologies to patients through integration and analysis of health information by grafting on high technologies such as wearable devices.

Esther L. Shields Simulation Center

Esther L. Shields Simulation Center

This center provides various forms of clinical training education for undergraduates, graduates, and nurse practitioners, reinforcing clinical competency through a simulation environment.

To train nursing professionals, it also supports new curriculum development to reinforce the educational competencies of the professors, improve learning experiences of students and nurses, and train practical nursing specialists.

Global Nursing Education Center

Global Nursing Education Center

This center supports extensive collaborations with various overseas institutions and researchers to strengthen the global competence of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty capacity for international research cooperation.

It also supports educational training, research, and social engagement activities in the global healthcare sector through partnerships with overseas universities.

Biobehavioral Education Research Center

Biobehavioral Education Research Center

This center is providing baseline data for development of nursing intervention effective in health promotion and disease prevention through research in biomedicine-based basic sciences and behavioral science from sociological perspectives. It also supports the measurement of the effects of biomedical, behavioral-scientific, and sociopsychological interventions in nursing.

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education Center

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education Center

The patient Safety and Quality Improvement center was established to support the improvement of safety of patients and healthcare workers as well as quality outcomes in healthcare systems. This center provides educational training to clinical practitioners, leaders, educators, and researchers in the fields of patient safety and quality of care. This center also collaborates with various stakeholders and researchers to provide support for creating and improving patient safety culture in healthcare organizations by applying research results to clinical settings.