Mentoring of nursing students-A comparative study of Japan and five European countries.

Aims: This study aimed to explore mentoring competence in nursing student mentors during clinical practice by identifying different mentor profiles and connections between different competence areas among five European countries and Japan.

Methods: The study implemented a cross-sectional design in Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, and Japan during 2016 and 2019. In total, 6208 mentors were invited, and 1862 participated from 58 healthcare organizations.

Differences in the risk of severe falls between patients aged <65 years and patients aged ≥65 years at a psychiatric hospital based on 12-year incident reports.

Purpose: This study compared age differences in risk factors for falls requiring treatment in psychiatric patients.

Design And Methods: An incident database was used to compare fall incidents in patients aged less than 65 years and those aged greater than or equal to 65 years.

Findings: Approximately 30% of fallers were less than 65 years.

Analysis of inedible substance ingestion at a Japanese psychiatric hospital.

Background: Inedible substance ingestion increases the risk of ileus, poisoning, and suffocation. Prevention is especially important in a psychiatric setting. This study aimed to analyze the incidence of inedible substance ingestion in a Japanese psychiatric hospital.

Assessment and care of visuospatial disorientation in a mixed dementia patient: a case study using objective measurements.

We present a case of a mixed dementia patient with visuospatial disorientation and a developmental disability. The patient was a 69-year-old man who was hospitalized for resistance to care, wandering, and a sleep disorder. He was in the advanced stages of dementia and had severe visual impairment due to cataracts.

Discrepancy between subjective and objective assessments of wandering behaviours in dementia as measured by the Algase Wandering Scale and the Integrated Circuit tag monitoring system.

Aim: Although wandering is one of the major research focuses of the behavioural psychological symptoms of dementia, assessment of wandering has mostly relied on caregiver-administered questionnaires. The purpose of this study was to compare staff-administered Algase Wandering Scale outcomes with objective temporal and spatial movement indicators obtained from the Integrated Circuit (IC) tag monitoring system.

Methods: Patients with dementia were recruited from a dementia care unit in Osaka, Japan in 2007.

[The status of smoking cessation support by nurses in general hospitals, and related factors].

Objective: To examine the status of smoking cessation support by nurses in general hospitals, as well as related factors

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,206 nurses working in three hospitals (inpatient and outpatient departments), and received 830 valid responses. We collected information in the following areas: sociodemographics, smoking status, work-related stress, experience of learning how to support smoking cessation, knowledge about smoking hazards and methods of assistance with quitting smoking, attitudes towards supporting smoking cessation, subjective norms to support smoking cessation, self-efficacy in smoking cessation support, intention to smoking cessation support, and status of smoking cessation support(Five "A's"). Multiple regression analysis was performed in order to identify factors related to status of smoking cessation support.