Contamination of healthcare workers' hands with bacterial spores.

Clostridium species and Bacillus spp. are spore-forming bacteria that cause hospital infections. The spores from these bacteria are transmitted from patient to patient via healthcare workers' hands.

[An action and the result of nursing care for an end-stage patient at geriatric health care facilities--learning from the family interview].

An introduction to Nursing Care for an end-stage patient at geriatric health care facilities helped to organize a project team with specialists consisted of various jobs. With a help from the manuals and study meetings in Nursing Care for an endstage patient , we were able to introduce the Nursing Care for an end-stage patient easily. And we did a research on the family after the Nursing Care for an end-stage patient was completed.

Caring for the spiritual pain of patients with advanced cancer: A phenomenological approach to the lived experience.

Objective: The aim of this research was to reveal, from the perspective of the "lived experience" shared by cancer patients and their nurses, how patients facing death create lived experience in the context of palliative care. This research also aims to elucidate the meaning nurses find in patients' experiences while caring for their patients.

Methods: The participants in this study were cancer patients who were given opportunities to discuss events and concerns in their daily lives, with the interactions guided by the researchers.