A message from the Nursing Division

As stated in our Nursing Principles, “To support women's health over their whole lives, and help bring life into the future,” all members of the Nursing Division daily work to improve their practice, in order to provide safe, worry-free and quality nursing and midwife care.
At present, 112 out of 228 midwives at Kishokai are certified by the Japanese Nursing Association as CLoCMiP advanced midwives. (An advanced midwife is recognized as possessing the qualities “to autonomously provide midwife care.”)
And we take advantage of operating in specialized obstetrics clinics to not only provide education to new graduates, but also encourage them to proceed to higher levels as professionals.
We are planning to enhance the education system for midwives in their second and later years, and provide training for the certification and renewal of advanced midwives.
With these efforts in education and human resources development, we hope to further improve nursing and midwife care.
I close this message with an earnest desire to further improve the satisfaction of our patients and their families, with a combination of “skill” and “heart”. Fumiko Umezaki, Director, Nursing Division

Career Development/Training

• NCPR Training
  (Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)

  92% of our midwives have completed this training, with four having become instructors who conduct at each of our clinics.

• BLS Training
  (Basic Life Support)

  Utilizing both outside and internal instructors, we are working to train all Kishokai employees (including doctors and administrative staff) in these techniques. Currently, 33% of our midwives have received the training, and we are also cultivating internal instructors. Of about 1,000 employees, 58% have received this training.

• Clinical Ladder
  Evaluation Program

  This is a program to inspect and certify that that our nurses' competencies for midwifery practice are maintained at a constant level. The Japanese Nursing Association's clinical ladder accreditation began in 2015, and we also work to promote the certification of midwives in Ladder Level III. About the certification system for Level III of Clinical Ladder of Competencies for Midwifery Practice
  https://josan-hyoka.org/personalidentification/overview/

About 50% of midwives in the Bell Network
have been certified as Advanced Midwives
by the Japanese Nursing Association.

Advanced Midwives are veteran midwives certified by the Japan Institute of Midwifery Evaluation as having cleared 16 separate requirements, including training in dealing with bleeding, training labor monitoring, and having attended over 100 deliveries and 200 antenatal care sessions. We are striving to even further increase our number of advanced midwives. In addition to this, we are implementing a diverse selection of career-improvement systems and new midwife training.