Sustaining the nursing workforce - exploring enabling and motivating factors for the retention of returning nurses: a qualitative descriptive design.

Background: The nursing shortage represents a persistent and urgent challenge within the healthcare industry. One of the most cost-effective and time-efficient solutions to address this issue is the recruitment of inactive nurses to rejoin the nursing workforce, while simultaneously ensuring the long-term sustainability of their careers following their return to work. The aim of this study is to explore the factors that facilitate the retention of nurses who have returned to work, from their perspective.

Ambulance use and emergency department visits among people with dementia: A cross-sectional survey.

This study aimed to explore factors associated with ambulance use and emergency department (ED) visits among people with dementia in the month before death. A web-based survey of bereaved family caregivers of people with dementia was conducted in March 2020. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted with ambulance use and ED visits in the month before death as dependent variables.

Factors related to liability for damages for adverse events occurring in long-term care facilities.

Globally, residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) often experience adverse events (AEs) and corresponding lawsuits that result in suffering among the residents, their families, and the facilities. Hence, we conducted a study to clarify the factors related to the facilities' liabilities for damages for the AEs that occur at LTCFs in Japan. We analyzed 1,495 AE reports from LTCFs in one Japanese city.

Effects of an Advance Care Planning Training Program for Certified Palliative Care Nurses in Japan.

Education programs for certified palliative care nurses who promote advance care planning (ACP) for cancer patients are important, but not currently available in Japan. This study aimed to develop an educational program of ACP for certified palliative care nurses in Japan and evaluate its effectiveness. A program consisting of four modules was implemented for 60 certified palliative care nurses in the Kyushu, Chugoku, and Shikoku regions.

Long-term care nurses' perceptions of a good death for people with dementia: A qualitative descriptive study.

Introduction: The number of people with dementia (PwD) dying in long-term care (LTC) settings is expected to increase. However, effective care strategies to promote a good death for PwD remain unclear. This study aimed to explore nurses' perceptions of a good death for PwD in LTC settings for older adults.

Rebuilding and guiding a care community: A grounded theory of end-of-life nursing care practice in long-term care settings.

Aims: To investigate the end-of-life (EOL) nursing care practice process in long-term care (LTC) settings for older adults in Japan.

Design: A qualitative study based on grounded theory developed by Corbin and Strauss.

Methods: Sampling, interviewing, and analysis were performed cyclically, with results for each stage used as the basis for data collection and next-stage analysis decisions.

End-of-life nursing care practice in long-term care settings for older adults: A qualitative systematic review.

Aim: To synthesize qualitative evidence on nurses' end-of-life care practices in long-term care settings for older adults.

Background: Qualitative evidence on how nurses describe their own end-of-life care practice has not been reviewed systematically.

Design: Qualitative systematic review.