Lived Bodily Experience of Worsening Heart Failure from Acute Exacerbation to Recovery: A Phenomenological Study.

Patients with heart failure have difficulty recognizing and identifying changes in bodily sensations, despite the importance of symptom monitoring. The way patients with heart failure experience their bodies from exacerbation to recovery is poorly understood. We aimed to describe the lived bodily experience of heart failure from exacerbation to recovery.

Validity and Reliability of a Short Form of the Questionnaire for the Reflective Practice of Nursing Involving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Cross-Sectional Study.

The number of patients on ventilators is rapidly increasing owing to the coronavirus pandemic. The previously developed Questionnaire for the Reflective Practice of Nursing Involving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (Q-RPN-IMV) for the care of patients on ventilators includes nurses' thought processes as items. This study aims to develop a short form of the Q-RPN-IMV for immediate use in practice and to test its reliability and validity.

Effects of a virtual reality intervention on dementia care education among acute care nurses in Japan: A non-randomised controlled trial.

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a virtual reality intervention for dementia care education in Japanese acute care nurses. Non-randomised controlled trial was used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention pre- and post-intervention and at a 1-month follow-up. This study enrolled 20 and 19 nurses in the intervention and control groups, respectively.

Dementia nursing competency in acute care settings: A concept analysis.

Aim: To critically analyse the concept of dementia nursing competency in acute care settings.

Backgrounds: The nursing care needs of patients with dementia are increasing in acute care settings. However, a framework for the dementia nursing competency has not been explicitly outlined.

Development of a Questionnaire for the Reflective Practice of Nursing Involving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: Assessment of validity and reliability.

Aim: To develop the Questionnaire for Reflective Practice of Nursing Involving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (Q-RPN-IMV), a Japanese self-evaluation instrument for ward nurses' IMV practices.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Methods: Participants were 305 ward nurses from five hospitals in Japan with nursing involving invasive mechanical ventilation.

A membrane protein, TMCO5A, has a close relationship with manchette microtubules in rat spermatids during spermiogenesis.

We isolated the transmembrane and coiled-coil domains 5A (Tmco5A) gene using polymerase chain reaction-based subtraction technique and showed that Tmco5A was predominantly expressed in rat testes starting at 4 weeks of postnatal development. When expressed in COS7 cells, TMCO5A was found to be distributed in the endoplasmic reticulum-nuclear membrane (ER-NM) of cells as a membrane-associated protein, while TMCO5AΔC lacking the transmembrane region (TM) mislocalized and diffused throughout the cytoplasm. The result suggested that TM is responsible for the retention of TMCO5A at the ER-NM.

Volatiles emitted from the leaves of Laurus nobilis L. improve vigilance performance in visual discrimination task.

The leaves of Laurus noblis L. (laurel) are mainly used as a spice in cooking, and the essential oil obtained by steam distillation of the leaves is used as an additive in foods, drugs and cosmetics. We investigated the effect of the volatiles emitted from the leaves of L.

Pulsed NMR study of network formation in the course of bulk polymerization of methyl acrylate.

The proton spin-spin relaxation time (T2) during the bulk polymerization of methyl acrylate was measured as a function of the reaction time at various temperatures. Three kinds of T2 (T2L (long), T2S (short) and T2M (intermediate)) were obtained as the polymerization proceeded. The fraction of T2S (FS) increased sigmoidally at a certain reaction time, while that of T2L (FL) decreased reciprocally.