With guidance from the UCSF School of Nursing, a university in Japan has launched that country’s first-ever program for nurse practitioners (NPs). Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences is the ...

One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan. Programs ...

Fumie Sakamoto, a nurse of St. Luke's International Hospital stands in front of her office as she talks to Reuters reporters in Tokyo Fumie Sakamoto, a nurse of St. Luke's International Hospital ...

The cities are different. The hospitals are different. The food is different. But when nurses from The Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon and Japan’s Kurobe City Hospital work together as part ...

Japan's rapidly ageing population has forced the country to rethink the way it approaches elderly care, giving rise to a new ...

Japan’s artificial intelligence expertise is transforming the elder care industry, with niche robotic caregiving accomplishing more than just taking pressure off the critical shortage of caregivers.