Exploring the needs and barriers for death education in China: Getting answers from heart transplant recipients' inner experience of death.

Background: Promoting reflection about death may support better living, and how to carry out death education is an important issue to be addressed across the world. The purpose of the current study was to explore the attitude of heart transplant recipients toward death and their inner real experience to provide information for the development of death education strategies.

Methods: A phenomenological qualitative study was conducted using a snowball method.

Effects of clean intermittent self-catheterization on late bladder dysfunction after radical hysterectomy in cervical cancer.

Objective: To identify the benefits of clean intermittent self-catheterization in women who have late bladder dysfunction caused by radical hysterectomy in cervical cancer.

Methods: Thirty women who underwent radical hysterectomy with late bladder dysfunction were recruited. A nursing intervention program focusing on clean intermittent self-catheterization and a drinking plan was implemented.