Sooja Kim
Kanagawa University of Human Services, Japan
Biography
Sooja Kim is an associate professor at Kanagawa University of Human Services. Her major is fundamental nursing including physical assessment, health assessment, and clinical judgment. She has completed her PhD from Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare. She provided several interventions for workplace users with ID combined with autistic tendencies to take proper health checkups in the community in Japan. After summarizing the findings, she presented a model in her doctoral dissertation that can be implemented by one nurse as a community-based approach to ensure appropriate health checkups for people with ID. Health problems of people with ID having difficulty to communicate are similar in the fields of dementia and pediatric nursing. If we can clarify methods for properly evaluating health condition in this area, it can contribute to the further improvement in the nature of nursing.