Ranko Hirano
| Faculty of Health Care,Department of Nursing | Lecturer |
Last Updated :2025/10/07
■Researcher basic information
■Career
Career
Educational Background
■Research activity information
Paper
- Reviewing Japanese Literature on Clinical Nursing Practicum Conferences: Focusing on Conferences’ Management and Students’ Learning
Ranko Hirano
Journal of Academy of Nursing Education Research, Jun. 2024, [Reviewed] - Lived Experiences of Nursing Students Participating in Clinical Conferences during Practicum: Toward Creating Groups Growing Together
Ranko Hirano
Mar. 2024 - Novice Preceptors’ Difficulties with Clinical Instructions for Newly Graduated Nurses, their Behaviors and Support Needs to Overcome these Difficulties
Ranko Hirano; Mariko Koyama
Journal of Japan Society of Nursing Research, Dec. 2018, [Reviewed]
Purpose: This study aims to clarify novice preceptors’ difficulties in providing clinical instructions to newly graduated nurses, their behaviors to overcome these difficulties, and the support they require, in order to consider various measures for supporting preceptors.
Methods: We performed semi-structured interviews with 11 novice preceptors and qualitatively analyzed the data.
Results: The main difficulties experienced by novice preceptors were strenuousness in grasping the comprehension level of newly graduated nurses, lack of self-confidence in their knowledge and teaching, and complications in cooperating with their colleagues on particular educational subjects. The preceptors attempted to overcome these difficulties by consulting with supervisors and senior co-workers, sharing their concerns with nurses who began working in the same year, and other behaviors involving support, such as forming better associations with colleagues and achieving greater self-awareness of being an instructor. The support they required included understanding from teammates, placement of mental health supporters, and more instruction on the teaching-learning content and methodologies.
Conclusions: Novice preceptors’ support needs for overcoming difficulties included an education system, greater mental health support, strengthening bonds with colleagues, and more positive management of their experiences. - Nursing Students’ Immediate Experience with the Teaching Materials and Instructions from Nursing Faculty in a FNP
Ranko Hirano
Journal of Academy of Nursing Education Research, Dec. 2018, [Reviewed] - Learning of Novice Preceptors in Providing Clinical Instructions to Newly Graduated Nurses and the Motives for this Learning
Ranko Hirano
Journal of Academy of Nursing Education Research, Jun. 2018, [Reviewed] - Novice Preceptors’ Difficulties with Clinical Instructions for Newly Graduated Nurses, their Behaviors and Support Needs to Overcome these Difficulties
Ranko Konno
Mar. 2012 - Nursing Skills Proficiency of New Graduate Nurses at the Intensive Care Unit: Their Self-Evaluations and Their Coach's Evaluations
Ranko Konno; Oshita Shizuka
Bulletin of Fukushima School of Nursing, Mar. 2009, [Reviewed]
Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
- Lived Experiences of Nursing Students Participating in Clinical Conferences during Practicum: Toward Creating Groups Growing Together
Ranko Hirano; Ikumi Sasaki
Dec. 2024 - Teaching Materials for Nursing Faculty in a Fundamental Nursing Practicum
Ranko Hirano; Retsu Mikami
Dec. 2015 - Learning of Novice Preceptors in Providing Clinical Instractions to Newly Graduated Nersus
Ranko Hirano
Dec. 2013 - Novice Preceptors’ Behaviors to Overcome these Difficulties with Clinical Instructions for Newly Graduated Nurses
Ranko Hirano; Mariko Koyama; Kayoko Kano
Dec. 2012 - Novice Preceptors’ Difficulties with Clinical Instructions for Newly Graduated Nurses
Ranko Konno; Mariko Koyama; Kayoko Kano
Aug. 2012 - Nursing Skills Achievement of Newly Hired Nurses: A Comparison of Their Self-Evaluation and Their Coach's Evaluations
Ranko Konno; Shizuka Oshita
Aug. 2008
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Research Themes
- Research on educational support for nursing students in clinical conferences
Teikyo Heisei University
Jul. 2025 - Mar. 2027 - The role of nurses and needs for clinical ethics support in healthcare setting
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Keio University
Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2018
Nurses are expected to act as patient advocates but they face a variety of ethical issues in daily clinical practice. The present study was conducted to illustrate clearly the role of nurses and needs for clinical ethics support in healthcare setting.
Qualitative research was conducted using semi-structured interviews. As a result, three themes were identified of the role of nurses for clinical ethics: respecting the intentions of patients, supporting patients to express their own ideas, values and feelings, sharing information, and adjust their own ethical value in health care team. Also, three themes were identified of nurses needs for ethical support: timely communication about ethical issues with peer professional colleagues, clinical ethics consultation service to assist the front line staff, and preventive ethical conflict through continuing education. Nurses require the resources to implement structures and programs that support ethics. - 集中治療看護師の学習支援を目指したコンピテンシーに関する研究
2009 - 2011
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