患者さんの傍にいる存在として ステーシー・ポールさん
日本でも制度が始まった「診療看護師」(Nurse Practitioner)は、看護と医学の視点を持ち、医師不足を救う存在として注目されています。アメリカでは、専門教育を受けた看護師が患者の診察や処置を行います。イリノイ州シカゴの病院で診療看護師として働くステーシーさんのお話からは、仕事への使命感、そして日本への思いが伝わってきました。
アフリカでの経験から看護の世界へ
大学時代は公衆衛生を学び、研究助手として働き始めました。
Japan has also started the system of the “Nurse Practitioner,” which is coming under the spotlight as a professional who has a perspective of nursing and medicine and can save a doctor shortage. In America, professionally trained registered nurses examine and treat patients. Stacy is working as a nurse practitioner at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois and her story was full of a sense of responsibility to her job and her feeling about Japan.
Entering the world of nursing after her experience in Africa
Her major in college was public health and she started working as a research assistant.
The nurse practitioner which has started in Japan focuses on nursing and medicines, and has been paid attention to as a person who compensates for shortage of doctors.
In the States, the nurses who had a special education diagnoses and treats patients.
I felt mission to life and feeling about Japan when I was listening to Stacy who has been working as a
nurse practitioner in the hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
To nursing based her experience in Africa
In college, she learned public health and started to work as a research assistant.
"Nurse Practitioner", a system which also started in Japan is attracting attention, as someone who has a perspective of nursing and medical science and to fill a lack of doctors. In America, nurses who were professionally educated see patients and treat them. We received a sense of mission to her vocation and her love to Japan from what Ms.Stacey, a nurse practitioner who works at the hospital in Chicago, Illinois told us.
From the experience in Africa to the world of nursing
During university years, I studied public health and started to work as a assistant researcher.