Development and psychometric testing of the Professional Interpersonal Competency Assessment Scale for Novice nurses (PICASN)

Assessing the professional interpersonal competency of novice nurses is crucial for preventing staff turnover and promoting effective work. However, none of the instruments identified in the literature specifically target novice nurses. This study aimed to develop and psychometrically test the perception dimension of the Professional Interpersonal Competency Assessment Scale for Novice nurses (PICASN) in Japan. The study comprised four steps: 1) concept identification, 2) item construction, 3) validity measure, and 4) reliability measure. A cross-sectional web-based questionnaire was administered from February to April 2023 and was completed by 203 novice nurses. Data quality was assessed using mean, item response, missing values, floor and ceiling effects, internal consistency, and item-rest correlations. Content validity index (CVI) was used to determine the instrument's validity, while exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using maximum likelihood estimation with Promax rotation was employed to assess the factor structure. Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate reliability. The 27-item PICASN demonstrated an Item-CVI of 0.94 and a Scale-CVI of 0.88. EFA revealed two factors: 1) Basic competencies as a novice nurse (15 items) and 2) Relationship building skills within the healthcare team (12 items), which explained 80% of the variance. Internal consistency reliability was excellent at 0.94 and 0.91 for the factors, and the overall scale reliability was 0.95. The item-rest (I-R) correlation values exceeding 0.6 were considered acceptable. The PICASN demonstrates satisfactory psychometric properties, making it an effective tool for measuring professional interpersonal competency among novice nurses in Japan. This instrument serves to assist novice nurses by promoting self-awareness and offering targeted insights into specific areas requiring improvement. Additionally, it provides experienced nurses and nurse managers with valuable insights into team dynamics, guiding interventions for continuous quality improvement.


Investigation of Methods to Create Future Multimodal Emotional Data for Robot Interactions in Patients with Schizophrenia: A Case Study


Remote-Controlled Drone System through Eye Movements of Patients Who Need Long-Term Care: An Intermediary's Role


Characteristics of interactive communication between Pepper robot, patients with schizophrenia, and healthy persons


Usefulness of 2D Video Analysis for Evalution of Shoulder Range of Motion during Upper Limb Exercise in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders

Aging and its associated problems related to movement impacts the care of people with psychiatric disorders. This study sought to clarify the usefulness of 2D video analysis for evaluating shoulder range of motion (ROM) during upper limb exercises in patients with psychiatric disorders. Subjects (N=54) were patients with psychiatric disorders categorized as the following:having either a high or low activities of daily living (ADL) score using the Barthel Index;experiencing shoulder ROM limitation, and whether or not compensatory movements were exhibited. Compensatory movement was also considered in patients with Parkinsonism, cerebrovascular disease, and cognitive dysfunction. Shoulder joint ROM was measured using a goniometer and active ROM was captured using ImageJ. No significant difference between passive ROM measured by a goniometer and active ROM measured by ImageJ considering disease groups, ADL level, and shoulder ROM limitation was found. Factoring in compensatory movements, however, significant differences were found between passive and active ROM:existence compensatory movement group, left side (z=-2.30, p=0.02);nonexistence compensatory movement group, right side (z=-2.63, p<0.001). Image-evaluating devices help assess ROM in patients with psychiatric disorders, enhancing the development of physical rehabilitation programs to regain critical ADL, sustaining self-care capabilities. J. Med. Invest. 69 : 70-79, February, 2022.

The Journal of Medical Investigation : JMI


Nurses Awareness and Actual Nursing Practice Situation of Stroke Care in Acute Stroke Units: A Japanese Cross-Sectional Web-Based Questionnaire Survey

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health


Psychometric Testing of the Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Instrument Revised (English Version Including a Practice Dimension)


Reimagining quarantine: Assuring hopefulness in nursing and healthcare

This article aimed to explore issues of concern related to quarantine, its social consequences and influences, challenging its effects on human behavioral expressions during social isolation. The advent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacted human lives in multifarious ways, threatening the meaning of normalcy. Quarantine, lockdown, isolation, and other terms reflecting conditions limiting human freedoms have become synonymous in importance to safety, security, and survival. To understand human defiance in the face of maintaining limited mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic, reimagining situations of "unfreedoms" is explained as thinking of changes to inspire and improve the meaning of living lives meaningfully. During the pandemic, issues regarding healthcare practices and social behaviors focused much attention on interactive challenges that enhance ways to mitigate the spread of contagious diseases. Illuminating these issues, discussing concerns and highlighting recommendations to engage in alternative approaches and practices, heightens the declaration of efficiency of quarantine outcomes and effectiveness. Implications are proposed with the hope that they may lead the way forward in exercising contemporary healthcare practices.


Perceptions of nurse managers and staff nurses regarding Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing theory in general hospitals in Japan


Intentional Observational Clinical Research Design: Innovative Design for Complex Clinical Research Using Advanced Technology


Psychometric Properties of Grief Traits and State Scale for Nurses to Measure Levels of Grief


Relationship between Loneliness and Self-Efficacy Among Persons with Schizophrenia in Indonesia

Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences


AESTHETIC EXPRESSION OF CARING IN NURSING AMONG JAPANESE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS


Reflections on International Nurses Day: Current status, issues, and the future of nursing in Indonesia


Development Issues of Healthcare Robots: Compassionate Communication for Older Adults with Dementia


Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Instrument-Revised


Human Psychological Burden and Thinking Process while Operating a Humanoid Robot Conversation App Program

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence (IJAI)


Practical issues in Developing Natural Language Processing Applications for Healthcare Robot Motivation of Older Persons Physical Rehabilitation


The AI Development Through Transforming Tacit Knowledge to Explicit Knowledge of Nurses' Dialogue for Patients with Dementia


Developmental Issues of Communication for Robot Applications in Older People Care: An Integrative Review


The Effects of Gaze and Paralanguage for Communication in Nursing: A Systematic Review


The Effect of In-Service Educational Programs on Nurse Managers Understanding of the Theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing


Interactions between healthcare robots and older people in Japan: A qualitative descriptive analysis study


Mental Health Conditions of Persons in the Community and of Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Integrative Review

International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices


Nurses' perception regarding patient safety climate and quality of health care in general hospitals in Japan


Relating Moris Uncanny Valley in generating conversations with artificial affective communication and natural language processing


Intelligent humanoid robots expressing artificial humanlike empathy in nursing situations


ARE INDONESIAN NURSES READY FOR HEALTHCARE ROBOTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?


Evaluation of the Remote-controlled Drone System using an Eye-tracking device through the Internet for patients in bedridden conditions

In many countries, the rate of aging in their population is rapidly increasing. It is expected that this increasing trend influences the number of patients in bedridden states who have difficulty moving their extremities, such as those patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The patients are limited in many aspects of their daily lives; this includes not seeing what is outside of their rooms, affecting their quality of life (QOL). Thus, this study aims to evaluate the Remote-controlled Drone System using the Eye-tracking device through the Internet (RDSEI) to improve QOL for patients in bedridden conditions. The novel RDSEI is proposed and developed by the Kai laboratory. The RDSEI consists of a drone, a transmitter, a control screen, an eye-tracking device, a video capture device, a server computer, and a client computer. The subjects of this experimental evaluation of the RDSEI were five healthy male adults (average age: 20.6 years old). Experimental results indicated that all the subjects could control the drone easily by using this system, although there were delays, blurriness, and freezing of the video. Therefore, it was concluded that by using this system, the subjects could control the drone by only their eye movements, thereby enabling them to see the outside world through the drone's camera. In the future, the patients will be able to control the RDSEI from remote locations and converse with persons in remote locations.


Autonomic nervous activity of patient with schizophrenia during Pepper CPGE-led upper limb range of motion exercises

Healthcare for the increasing senior population is a significant challenge. To address this problem, the use of healthcare robot is increasingly being recognized to have strong potential in addressing older adult and psychiatric patients' healthcare and welfare needs. The purpose of this preliminary study is to evaluate the changes in the autonomic nervous activity of an elderly patient with schizophrenia during upper limb range of motion (ROM) exercises led by Pepper (SoftBank Robotics) with the application program of Care Prevention Gymnastics Exercises (Pepper-CPGE) made by Xing Company in Japan. A Pepper-CPGE-led three-minute radio gymnastics program (Radio Exercises #1, consisted of three types of exercises) and instructions were developed. The normal aging 69-year old schizophrenic subject followed instructions from Pepper throughout the intervention. Electrocardiography (ECG) records, heart rate, acceleration score, and ROM exercises of upper limb were collected and analyzed using the GSM's Bonaly Light instrument and Image-J analysis. (1) The high-frequency (HF) (indicative of parasympathetic nervous activity), and low-frequency (LF)/HF ratio (indicative of sympathetic nerve activity) were increased in reference from the baseline data before the exercise stretching the chest. (2) The momentum decreased as the ROM of shoulder joint flexion declined. Declines in both parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous activity were observed. Also, (3) when the exercise "bend the body forward" was performed, the HF and LF/HF also decreased. Evaluation of robot-based rehabilitation exercise program effectiveness by the ROM exercises image analysis and autonomic nervous activity is essential for the futurist programming of ROM exercise among patients with schizophrenia.


Consideration of Safety Management When Using Pepper, a Humanoid Robot for Care of Older Adults


The Intermediary Roles of Public Health Nurses (PHNs) in Utilizing Communication Robots(CRs) in Community Health Care Practice


Disruptive Engagements With Technologies, Robotics, and Caring Advancing the Transactive Relationship Theory of Nursing


The Optimization of Humanoid Robots Dialog in Improving Communication between Humanoid Robot and Older Adults


A novel in-service nursing education optimizing theory of technological competency as caring in nursing

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice


Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Machines: Influences, Consequences, and Dilemmas in Human Care


The implementation of the Japanese Dental English core curriculum: active learning based on peer-teaching and learning activities.

Education in Japan and other Asian countries advocates the stereotypical passive learning style where students are limited in their breadth of knowledge dismissing anything not imparted by their teachers. With globalized education, professions are becoming very competitive, embracing student-centeredness compelling them to introduce active learning activities. A study funded by Japan's Ministry of Education conducted a needs analysis, proposed a solution, and implemented an active learning approach. Since the latter is still new in the Japanese teaching-learning environment, this current study aimed at assessing the willingness of undergraduate students of dental medicine to participate in active learning activities rather than the typical passive-style teaching-learning educational process. Three active implementation-learning activities, namely International Group Discussions (IGD), Student-Teacher Experience (STE) and Role Play Activities (RPA) were included in the Dental English course in a classroom setting at a dental school in Japan. Students had to choose between participating in the activity or taking the final examination. Two hundred and three third-year undergraduate dental students participated over a 5-year period from October 2013 to March 2017. For IGD, the researchers assigned students to a topic and grouped them with visiting international exchange students. For STE, researchers gave students teacher-prepared presentation slides on basic dental topics, which they presented in front of their classmates. For RPA, students had to do prepared role-play and impromptu role play. Peer and teacher feedbacks of the activities were given to all students. At the end of the course, the students evaluated the active learning activities and wrote their comments in a free entry survey. All 203 students participated in the active learning activities confirming the changing learning needs of Japanese students in this dental school. The most common comment was that the class was interesting, fun, an easy-to-understand way to learn dental terms, and a safe way to express themselves in the English language. The majority of Japanese students preferred the active learning style. The study revealed that students reported greater engagement and better learning with proper guidance and time to prepare for the activities.


Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (PITCCN): Psychometric Evaluation

International Journal of Studies in Nursing


Lived experience of grieving of Thai Buddhist husbands who lost their wives from critical illness


Advancing the Theory of Technological Competency as Caring within Nursing and the Health Sciences : From Philosophical and Theoretical to Praxis

The Journal of Medical Investigation : JMI


Perceptions of Self of Persons with Visible Artificial Devices : A Review of the Literature

Not much is known about the self-perceptions of persons using prosthetic devices. The purpose of the literature review was to explore the self-perceptions of persons living with visible artificial devices from published articles between 2010 and 2017. Using key words to search for published literature in the PubMed,CINAHL, IEEE Proceedings, and Scopus indices showed 680 articles. Braun and Clarke's six phases of qualitative thematic analysis were used on 25 articles meeting the inclusion criteria, revealing 29 data extracts (themes) as data summaries. Three key thematic categories were revealed : Body image and ownership, integration of prosthetic device into the self-body, and suspended enjoyment or delight, reflecting the longings for completeness affecting persons' use of prosthetic devices. Consistent with self-perceptions understood through social biases and customs, completeness is achieved through the happy paradox of a person made whole through artificial devices. This experience informs nursing practice in helping people find meaning in their life. Further research into selfperceptions with prosthetic devices is essential, particularly those reflecting the cultural influences of artificial devices on quality of life. J.Med.Invest. 66:58-64, February, 2019.


Characteristics of Transactive Relationship Phenomena among Older adults, Care Workers as Intermediaries, and the Pepper Robot with Care Prevention Gymnastics Exercises

Healthcare for older adults is a significant problem in Japan and in other developed countries. To address this problem, healthcare robots, now realized, can assist and meet healthcare and welfare practice demands. The aim of this study was to clarify characteristics of Transactive Relationships (TR) in older adults, in care workers as intermediaries, and Pepper (Softbank Robotics Corporation) a robot equipped with the application program of Care Prevention Gymnastics Exercises for Pepper (Pepper-CPGE) made by Xing Company, Japan. Data were collected by observing TRs between Pepper and older patients in Kagawa Prefecture,Japan between from May 8 to August 1 2018. The Transactive Relationship Theory of Nursing (TRETON) was used to explain how Pepper-CPGE led the exercises with older adults as physical exercises. The role of PepperCPGE was to provide instructions for the older adults in performing gymnastic exercises. During the exercising activity, care workers were present to prevent falls of the older adults, and to operate and observe the video presentations by supporting and caring for the participants. In using Pepper-CPGE, it was possible to change the role of the healthcare providers, originally thought to contribute to increasing the quality of older adult care and their rehabilitation. J. Med. Invest. 66 : 46-49, February, 2019.


Criterion-related Validity of the Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (PITCCN) in Acute Care Settings

The Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (PITCCN) based on Locsin's theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (TCCN, 2005) was developed (Kato et al. 2016) and revised by Miyamoto et al. (2017). The purpose of this study was to verify criterion-related validity of PITCCN using the Practice of Caring Behavior Questionnaire (PCBQ, Shigehisa, 2007). The study was approved by the Ethical Review Board of Tokushima University Hospital. Data were collected from September 2017 to October 2017. Of the 402 questionnaire copies distributed, only 299 copies were returned and analyzed to determine correlations between total score value and Mean Factor Point of each factor for PITCCN and PCBQ. These were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients. Statistical significance was at .01 levels. Strong positive correlation coefficient was obtained between total score values (r=.76, p?.01) and factors of PITCCN and PCBQ (r=.19 to .68, p?.01) , except the PITCCN's factor 3 : "Utilization of information obtained from technology and continuous knowing" and PCBQ's factor 6 : "Enriched relationships between patient and nurse", (r=.13, not significant). From these results, the criterion-related validity of PITCCN as the inventory of TCCN could be confirmed. J. Med. Invest. 66 : 42-45, February, 2019.


The Cebuano mothers willingness to pay for dental healthcare

The Journal of the Philippine Dental Association


How Can Nurses Drive Technologies of Healthcare in the Asia-Pacific


The lived experience of family caregivers caring for patients dependent on life-sustaining technologies

International Journal of Nursing Sciences


Can nurses remain relevant in a technologically advanced future?


Potential Legal Issues and Care Implications during Care-Prevention Gymnastic Exercises for the Elderly Using Pepper in Long Term Health Care Facilities


Humanoid Nurse Robots as Caring Entities: A Revolutionary Probability?

International Journal of Studies in Nursing


Elderly persons forward-looking and self-fulfilling life while living with chronic Illness


Efficacy and Safety in Intramuscular Injection Techniques Using Ultrasonographic Data


Evaluations of echogenicity in gluteal muscle in patients with schizophrenia treated with second generation long-acting injectable antipsychotics: risperidone or aripiprazole


Relationship among Health Related Quality of Life, Quality of Sleep, and Oral Health Condition


コミュニティに関するケアリングの概念分析

コミュニティに関するケアリングの概念分析


Can humanoid nurse robots replace human nurses?


Comparative Examination between the Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (PITCCN) and the Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Instrument (TCCNI)

International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices


Theory-based nursing practice in the world of anthropomorphic intelligent machines

How will human nurses practice nursing with advancing technologies particularly involving anthropomorphic intelligent machines? Nursing as an expression of caring in nursing is oftentimes appreciated as acts of endearment or TLC (Tender loving care) by nurses towards persons who are in situations craving for human-to-human contact. Such situations often define nursing as demanding for nurses' emotion. However, if feelings or emotions is the criterion that makes the 'caring' live meaningfully in nursing situations, in the future, how will caring be expressed when nursing engagements in practice will be primarily with anthropomorphic intelligent machines? Contemporary understandings of 'humanness' may be obsolete and human-to-human contact as we know it today may consequently remain imaginary. The realities of nursing care perpetuate increasing dependence on technology, and interactions between persons and intelligent machines will need to be redefined. The theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing provides dynamic nursing process events in which technological knowing, mutual designing and participative engaging encompass theory-based nursing thereby furthering quality nursing care outcomes as the foundational rationale for engagements in theory-based nursing practice with anthropomorphic intelligent machines.


Ethics, Empirics and Esthetics: The Visibility of Nursing and the Sustainability of Human Health in a Technological World


Nursing Engagement: The Process of Nursing Grounded in the Theory of Human Potential Fulfillment in Nursing (HuPoFNE)


Recognition and Status of Practicing Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing by Nurses in ICU


The Relationship among Chronic Disease, Feeling-for-Their-Age, Sleep Quality, Health-Related Quality of Life and Activities of Daily Living of Community-Dwelling Persons over 55 Years of Age


Effects of Depth of Needle Insertion with Risperidone Long-Acting Injectable in Persons with Schizophrenia: A Randomized Double-Blind Study


Daily Activities and Sleep Durations of Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease Who Were Discharged to Their Homes after Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention


The Development of the Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

看護におけるケアリングとしての技術力の認識尺度の開発

The purpose of this research was to develop the Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing(PITCCN)for Intensive Care Unit(ICU)nurses. The inventory has twenty three item statements derived from Locsin's theory on caring. The research study received approval from the University of Tokushima Hospital Clinical Study Ethical Review Board (Approval No.2585). The time frame was from September2016to November2016. Copies of the Inventory were sent to426ICU nurses working in hospitals in Japan. Only308questionnaire copies were returned with no missing value(response rate was72%). Factor analysis(principal factor analysis, varimax rotation), the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin(KMO)and the Bartlett's test of Sphericity were used to assess the adaptive validity of the factor analysis. Factor loadings were set at0．4or more for the configuration of items. Internal consistency and reliability were established using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Statistical significance was at0．05level. Four factors were extracted and labelled as(1)Training of nurses to provide optimal care,(2)empirical knowledge and whole human knowing,(3)Utilization of information obtained from technology and continuous knowing, and(4)Intentional and ethical nursing of persons. Cronbach's alpha was 0．894 for the questionnaire(20 items)and 0．869, 0．872, 0．876, and 0．734, for the four factors respectively. This showed that the over-all data obtained high internal consistency for each factor. The KMO sample adequacy was0．88and the Bartlett's test of sphericity was p<0．001. These results showed that the Perceived Inventory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing was reliable.


義足を使用して社会生活を送っている女性の体験に関する症例報告

義足を使用して社会生活を送っている女性の体験に関する症例報告

It is imperative that a concern of physical function is addressed such as ability to walk, and how the disease and the sophistication of artificial devices influence person's quality of life(QOL). A woman in her 50s who has a lower limb prosthetic device after amputation. She lived with this prosthesis for more than 20 years. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. The findings of the study revealed that hoping for a better QOL can be lost due to unbearable suffering from adverse reactions during chemotherapy. This lived experience made her decide to discontinue chemotherapy giving her greater than expected grief experience than her postamputation. Watchful ambulation became distinctive and purposive with each step so as not to fall. This walking style was to show her normal gait, rather than worrying about the gaze from people. Furthermore, it was found that feelings of incompleteness still existed even with the prosthetic device. This was often attributed to the physical pain and discomfort while wearing this device even while knowing that she is now a whole person. Still she felt incomplete in the moment. Visible artificial device becoming her essential part, provided a meaningful life that enabled her to grow with the family.


Relationship among Sleep Quality Physical Health Conditions and Lifestyle Habits among Elementary School Students


Quality of Life of Adult Persons Living with Colostomy: A Review of the Literature


Recommended Design and Direction of Development for Humanoid Nursing Robots Perspective from Nursing Researchers


Characteristics of a Transactive Phenomenon in Relationships among Older Adults with Dementia, Nurses as Intermediaries, and Communication Robot


新卒看護師が入職する精神科病院の特徴

新卒看護師が入職する精神科病院の特徴

The current state of employment of nursing staff at psychiatric hospitals is beset with patient care problems such as of shortage of nurses and the increasing number of older nurses.Considering these situations, Nurse administrators in psychiatric hospitals are challenged to increase the number of younger nurses as a solution towards improving the staffing shortage thereby enhancing quality of nursing services. The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristics of psychiatric hospitals that newly graduated nurses found to be a good place to practice their profession. A survey was conducted using a questionnaire which was provided to 277 sychiatric hospital nurse administrators. About 40% of the 234 hospitals administrators who responded employed newly graduated nurses. Employment of newly graduated nurses was significantly related to hospitals with 200 beds or more than 200 beds or less(x2 ＝35.37∼13.75,φ＝0.40∼0.25, p<0.001). The characteristics of a psychiatric hospital where newly graduated nurse found to be a good place to practice their profession enters are as follow(: 1)Hospital Nursing staff taught courses in psychiatric nursing at the newly-graduated nurses nursing school/nursing college( 2)The students had their clinical experience at the particular psychiatric hospital and(3)The hospital has employed a Certified Nurse Specialist or Certified Nurse in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. A useful approach to the employment of newly graduated nurses in psychiatric hospitals were suggested as follow(: 1)To establish a procedure in which the essence and appeal of psychiatric nursing are recognized, such as promoting psychiatric clinical practice settings and providing staff to conduct lectures at particular nursing education institutions and(2)To nurture and recognize nurses who have become excellent role models.


The Co-Existence of Technology and Caring in the Theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

The coexistence of technology and caring is best exemplified in nursing. The theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing illuminates this coexistence as the essence of technology in health care premised on machine technologies as a generic concept of objects or things that are mechanical, organic, and electronic. With its timely development these technologies are continually imbued with artificial general intelligence. As such, the ultimate expression of machine technologies in nursing turns out to be autonomous robots (ARs) with future potentials of functions comparable to human persons. While theory-based nursing practice is essential to nursing care practice, quality human care, particularly with technologies assuming indispensable practice process mechanisms is critical. Some practice-based questions informing ARs and human person engagements in nursing care practice include, "Will ARs which are imbued with artificial intelligence replace nurses in their practice?" "What contributions to quality human health care will autonomous and artificially intelligent robots provide?" While these questions may reflect far-reaching ramifications of technologies in health care, it must also be acknowledged that these technologies are fundamental to the delivery of quality human health care now, and in the future. J. Med. Invest. 64: 160-164, February, 2017.

The Journal of Medical Investigation : JMI


Relationship between Lifestyle, Quality of Sleep, and Daytime Drowsiness of Nursing Students of University A


Music as Expression of Co-created Moments Transpiring in Nursing

Sonus: A Journal of Investigations into Global Musical Possibilities


The theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: Guiding Nursing and Health Care

The purpose of this paper is to describe nursing practice as guided by the theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing(TCCN). In the past, nurses practiced nursing based on medical knowledge and skillful techniques. Today, derived from nursing science, professional nursing is founded on nursing knowledge and its practice ought to be based on theories of nursing. Within the TCCN theory, nursing is a dynamic engagement between the nurse and the patient, occurring ina technological encounter within the universal technological domain. The process of knowing persons as nursing practice is illustrated as technological knowing, mutual designing and participative engaging. Through the theory of TCCN, nursing is designed as caring in which both the nurse and patient actively participate in his/her care rather than the nurse consigning the patient simply as objects or recipients of care. The theory clearly explains and illuminates the interface between science, technology, nursing practice, and human caring. Nursing as a practice based on theory is useful in enhancing the quality of life of persons.


精神科看護とケアリング 事例にもとづく患者理解の検討

精神科看護とケアリング 事例にもとづく患者理解の検討

The Japanese Journal of Psychiatric Nursing


Characteristics of Psychiatric Hospital Work Environment Found Attractive by Professional Nurse Administrators in Japan

International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices


Availability of Thickness Estimation of the Subcutaneous Fat by Using the Near-infrared Ray Measuring Device


Community-based pedagogy of nursing in developing countries: An integrative review

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice


Prioritizing Patient Assessment Data (PAD) Using the Japanese Psychiatric Nursing Assessment Classification System (PsyNACS)©


Comparison of Gluteal Muscle Intramuscular Injection Sites of Japanese Healthy Subjects: Considerations for Optimal Insertion of Injection Needle Length


Intramuscular Diffusion Status of Risperidone and Aripiprazole Long Acting Injectable (LAI) by Ultrasonography


Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: Co-creating Moments in Nursing Occurring Within the Universal technological Domain.

Journal of Theory Construction & Testing


Lived experience of caring for dying patients in emergency room.


Explanatory Variables as Evidence for Precision in Intramuscular Long-Acting Injections of Patients with Schizophrenia


Husserlian Phenomenology and Colaizzis Method of Data Analysis: An Exemplar in Qualitative Nursing Inquiry using Boykin and Schoenhofers Nursing as Caring Theory.


The Development of the Japanese Psychiatric Nursing Assessment Classification System (PsyNACS©)


Characteristic Autonomic Nervous Activity of Institutionalized Elders with Dementia


Development of the Diabetes Oral Health Assessment Tool © for Nurses


Advancing the Theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: The Universal Technological Domain.


Clarifying the Strengths-Oriented Attitude among Nurses in Psychiatric Hospitals in Japan


The Effect of a Psycho-Educational Program on Psychiatric Symptoms, Drug Attitude and Treatment Satisfaction of Patients with Schizophrenia


Persons Who Are Dependent on Technologies for Care: Lived Experience of Being Cared For following Lower Limb Amputation


The Ebola virus is a highly virulent, single-stranded ribonucleic acid virus which affects both humans and apes and has fast become one of the world's most feared pathogens. The virus induces acute fever and death, with haemorrhagic syndrome occurring in up to 90% of patients. The known species within the genus Ebolavirus are Bundibugyo, Sudan, Zaïre, Reston and Taï Forest. Although endemic in Africa, Ebola has caused worldwide anxiety due to media hype and concerns about its international spread, including through bioterrorism. The high fatality rate is attributed to unavailability of a standard treatment regimen or vaccine. The disease is frightening since it is characterised by rapid immune suppression and systemic inflammatory response, causing multi-organ and system failure, shock and often death. Currently, disease management is largely supportive, with containment efforts geared towards mitigating the spread of the virus. This review describes the classification, morphology, infective process, natural ecology, transmission, epidemic patterns, diagnosis, clinical features and immunology of Ebola, including management and epidemic containment strategies.

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal


The Effect of Intentional Communication, Recreation, and Rehabilitation on the Autonomic Nervous Activity of Elderly Persons with Dementia : A Case Study


Professional Nurses'Attitudes towards the introducution of Humaniod Nursing Robots(HNRs) in Health Care Settings


Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: strategies for effective epidemic management, containment and control

Ebola hemorrhagic fever, caused by the highly virulent RNA virus of the filoviridae family, has become one of the world's most feared pathogens. The virus induces acute fever and death, often associated with hemorrhagic symptoms in up to 90% of infected patients. The known sub-types of the virus are Zaire, Sudan, Taï Forest, Bundibugyo and Reston Ebola viruses. In the past, outbreaks were limited to the East and Central African tropical belt with the exception of Ebola Reston outbreaks that occurred in animal facilities in the Philippines, USA and Italy. The on-going outbreak in West Africa that is causing numerous deaths and severe socio-economic challenges has resulted in widespread anxiety globally. This panic may be attributed to the intense media interest, the rapid spread of the virus to other countries like United States and Spain, and moreover, to the absence of an approved treatment or vaccine. Informed by this widespread fear and anxiety, we analyzed the commonly used strategies to manage and control Ebola outbreaks and proposed new approaches that could improve epidemic management and control during future outbreaks. We based our recommendations on epidemic management practices employed during recent outbreaks in East, Central and West Africa, and synthesis of peer-reviewed publications as well as published "field" information from individuals and organizations recently involved in the management of Ebola epidemics. The current epidemic management approaches are largely "reactive", with containment efforts aimed at halting spread of existing outbreaks. We recommend that for better outcomes, in addition to "reactive" interventions, "pre-emptive" strategies also need to be instituted. We conclude that emphasizing both "reactive" and "pre-emptive" strategies is more likely to lead to better epidemic preparedness and response at individual, community, institutional, and government levels, resulting in timely containment of future Ebola outbreaks.

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases


Reliability Verification and Practical Effectiveness Evaluation of the Nursing Administration Analysis Formulae Based on PSYCHOMS®


Methodology for Developing a Nursing Administration Analysis System

Nursing administration requires a large volume of wide-ranging information, and nurse administrators are limited in their ability to compile and analyze information for nursing administration. The purpose of this study is to create methodology for developing a nursing administration analysis system to aid nurse administrators in performing outcome analysis. In this methodology, information required for nursing administration in the PSYCHOMS? (Psychiatric Outcome Management System, registered trademark) database is analyzed according to the individual needs of nurse administrators. It features a combination of a classification method and an extraction method for obtaining quantitative and qualitative data as information required for nursing administration, and enables nurse administrators to easily obtain analysis results that they directly need. This methodology converts the time required nurse administrators to collect and organize information into time for making considerations in order to devise strategies for improving the quality of nursing care services, and can improve the quality and efficiency of nursing administration. This may lead to an increase of the quality of nursing care services at psychiatric hospitals. This methodology is highly versatile as it can be applied in information management, not only for nursing, but for the entire psychiatric hospital.

看護管理に必要な情報が多岐にわたり膨大となっている．看護管理のための情報の整理や分析は看護管理者の努力だけでは限界があり，看護管理者が行うアウトカム分析を支援することを目的に看護管理分析システムを開発した．看護管理に必要な情報を看護管理者個々のニーズに応じて，PSYCHOMS○R(Psychiatric Outcome Management System, registered trademark)のデータベースに保存されているデータを分析する．その特徴は，分類と抽出の2種類の方法を混合して量的・質的データをアウトプットとして表示することができるため，看護管理に必要な情報を出力できる．看護管理者が直感的に必要と考えたことに対する分析結果を簡便に得ることができる．このシステムを活用することで，看護管理者が情報の収集と整理に要していた時間を，看護サービスの質を改善するための方略を考えるための思考の時間に変換することができるため，看護管理の質と効率性を高めることができる．その結果，精神科看護サービスの質向上につなげることが可能となる．本システムは看護だけにとどまらず，精神科病院全体の情報管理にも応用可能であり，汎用性がある．


Development of Algorithm and System for Automatic Generation of Nursing Summaries from Nursing Care Plans


Changes of sleep conditions of patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) who underwent elective percutaneous coronary intervention during hospitalization and after discharge from the hospital


Clarification of a Demand Function Required for A Staff Assignments Support Program for Nursing Administrator-use in Psychiatric Hospitals

Information : an International Interdisciplinary Journal


The Challenges of the Nursing Administration for Staff Assignment Determination in Psychiatric Hospitals


Discussion of Nursing Robot's Capability and Ethical Issues


Measuring quality of sleep and autonomic nervous function in healthy Japanese women


Optimal needle insertion length for intramuscular injection of risperidone long-acting injectable (RLAI)


The relationship between sleep condition and autonomic nervous function in women in their 70s with type 2 diabetes mellitus


The relationship between body mass index, thickness of subcutaneous fat, and the gluteus muscle as the intramuscular injection site


Sleep conditions and quality of life among patients with ischemic heart disease after elective percutaneous coronary intervention


Collaborative agencies and quality discharge support for the long-team care inpatients with mental illness

Long-term hospitalization is a problem for psychiatric care in Japan. The purpose of this research was to clarify the demands placed on public health nurses' (PHN) involved in the discharge of long-term inpatients (LIPs) with mental illness, and their lack of support. A questionnaire was mailed to 516 health centers, and 112 health centers replied. The response rate was 21.7 percent. The mail survey questionnaire was based on original questionnaire developed by the authors. Significant differences were found among collaborative agencies selected as essential for the discharge support project for the LIPs with mental illness. These differences were evident in the following question items on insufficiency of support: "Incompatibility with the policy of the public health center on discharge support"; "Opposition to discharge of a LIPs with mental illness by hospital staff"; and "Shortage of PHN in charge of the discharge support project for the LIPs with mental illness". It was clarified that the discharge support project required not only the involvement of health and medical welfare personnel but also the cooperation of local human resources such as local residents, neighbor associations, social workers, real-estate agencies and others.

The Journal of Medical Investigation : JMI


Required Function of the Caring Robot with Dialogue Ability for Patients with Dementia

AIA International Advanced Information Institute


Developing the Method of Server Controlled Outcomes Management and Variance Analysis

This paper is to describe a way to develop the Psychoms process for mental health patient management and variance analysis system has been developed using artificial intelligence. Although it is agreed that there is a need for clinical pathway variance analysis, methods for creating a system are less well defined. The procedure and systematic process described aims to improve patients' quality of life through consistent and timely care. Ultimately, its potential influence is to assist in the improvement of quality health care services. This paper illustrates a method of outcomes management and variance analysis as the prospective development of future research.

本論文では，人工知能を使って開発されたメンタルヘルス患者管理と差異分析システムのためのPSYCHOMSプロセスを開発する方法を記述した．それは，臨床経路差異分析の必要性があることが合意されているが，システムを作成するための方法は，あまりよく定義されていない．このシステムの開発過程において，タイムリーなケアを提供することによって患者の生活の質を改善するための組織的なプロセスと手順が明確にされた．最終的に，その潜在的な影響は，質の高い医療サービスを支援することである．本論文では，今後の研究や前向きの開発などのアウトカム管理と差異分析の方法を示した．

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science


The Technique of Emotion Recognition Based on Electroencephalogram

We aim to develop the mechanism that is possible to sympathize with man, and we target at the thing to read feelings which man feels from the brain wave. This time, as an initial stage of the research how the subject is able to make judgments to be impressed from the brain wave is verified. Concretely, it is investigated by using electroencephalograph (EEG) that the brain is an active state when the subject own declaring to have been impressed. Three kinds of evaluation method are used for this research. One method is statistically evaluated based on the strength of potential. Other method is evaluated objective based on the place which brain waves activate. Another method is evaluated by comparing a subject's subjectivity with change of EEG. Subjects are two persons and a small number this time, and since those attributes are partial, a question remains in the justification of a result. However, it is also the fact which becomes clear from this result that a subject's impression condition can fully be judged from the activity state of brain waves.

我々は，人に同情することが可能であるメカニズムの開発を目指して，脳波から感じる人の感情を読み取る事をターゲットにしている．今回は，研究の初期段階として，被験者の脳波から感動したかどうかの判断を行うことができる方法を検証した．具体的には，脳は，対象が感動したと宣言所有アクティブ状態であることを脳波計(EEG)を用いて調べた．この研究のために3種類の評価法を使用した．一つ目の方法は，可能性の強さに基づいて統計的に評価した．二つ目の方法は，脳波がアクティブな場所に基づいて客観的に評価した．もう一つの方法は，EEGの変化に被験者の主観を比較することによって評価した．被験者は，今回二人と少数であり，それらの属性が不完全であるため，少し問題が残っている． しかし，それはまた，この結果から，被験者の印象条件が完全に脳波の活動状態で判断することができることが明らかになった事実だった．

Information : an International Interdisciplinary Journal


フロリダアトランティック大学におけるコミュニティへのケアリングの取り組みの視察

フロリダアトランティック大学におけるコミュニティへのケアリングの取り組みの視察

JNI : The Journal of Nursing Investigation


Future Tasks for Introducing the Electronic Management System in Psychiatric Nursing

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information(Info13)