The Difficulty of Selecting the NANDA-I Nursing Diagnosis (2015-2017) of "Death Anxiety" in Japan.

Purpose: The purpose of our study was to clarify any difficulties or problems that exist in Japanese healthcare sites regarding the selection of death anxiety as a nursing diagnosis.

Methods: This study was a qualitative, inductive research design. The semistructured interviews were conducted on the participants who were nurses and had 3 or more years of clinical experience in Japan.

Uncertainty in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms undergoing endovascular surgery: a qualitative and inductive study.

Background: Advances in diagnostic imaging technology have increased opportunities to discover unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA), and prior research has shown that UIA patients experience uncertainty both when making choices regarding treatment and after surgery.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to clarify the nature of the uncertainty experienced by UIA patients who elect to undergo endovascular surgery.

Methods: Data from interviews with 31 subjects were synthesized with findings from previous research and then analyzed qualitatively and inductively.