Main Factors for Creating a Nursing Curriculum Including Oriental Medicine and Challenges of Its Implementation: A Case Study of a Japanese University

The first stage was to outline the trends in nursing research on the use of Oriental medicine in nursing in Japan. The second stage was to investigate participants were nurses and doctors who practice at the Japanese Oriental “Kampo” Medicine of university hospital with method of Focus group interview. On the third stage, purpose of this study was to inspect the nursing school which was the first one to develop their curriculum involved Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan in order to acquire suggestions for creating a nursing model in Japan. Main Factors for Creating Nursing Curriculum Including Oriental Medicine and Challenges of Its Implementation: A Case Study of a Taiwan University