Aim: This study aims to investigate eye tracking in the practical training of incontinence pad change, which is commonly required in older adult nursing.
Background: Some competencies possessed by skilled and experienced personnel are difficult to verbalize into textbooks. However, this is crucial for education, especially nursing practice education.
Nurses are expected to depend on a wide variety of visually available pieces of patient information to understand situations. Thus, we assumed a relationship between nurses' skills and their gaze trajectories. An observational study using a simulator was conducted to analyze gaze during neonatal care practice using eye tracking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nurses are responsible for comprehensively identifying patient conditions and associated environments. We hypothesize that gaze trajectories of nurses differ based on their experiences, even under the same situation.
Methods: An eye-tracking device monitored the gaze trajectories of nurses with various levels of experience, and nursing students during the intravenous injection task on a human patient simulator.
Background: Oral functional ability decreases with age, and systemic immunological ability and quality of life can also deteriorate. Continuous moderate whole-body exercise for older people is known to improve oral functional and their immunological abilities. Here, we evaluated the effect of oral exercise as an alternative training method for highly older people who cannot perform whole-body exercises.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of nursing interventions using minimally invasive or non-invasive methods conducive to frequent use in order to assess patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).
Methods: We provided three nursing interventions-sitting the patient in an upright position, footbath care, and oral care-to PVS patients (n = 11) and elderly bedridden subjects with consciousness (n = 6) for 3 weeks in addition to ordinary nursing treatments. The Kohnan Score, plasma cortisol and adrenaline levels, General Well-Being Schedule score, and facial expression assessments were used as evaluation methods.