Nurses' perceptions of medical procedures and nursing practices for older patients with non-cancer long-term illness and do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders: A vignette study.

Aim: To elucidate influence of a do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) order on nurses' perceptions of the medical procedures and nursing practices for non-cancer older patients.

Design: A vignette-based questionnaire study.

Methods: A questionnaire survey asking nurses their perceptions of clinical practices for the following three vignettes was performed in a community hospital in Japan (120): the control vignettes with an older patient with repeated heart failure who was living alone and the other two with either an absence of relatives or a diagnosis of dementia.

Development and validation of Nurse Managers' Empowering Behavioral Scale for staff nurses.

Aim: In this study, we developed and verified the Nurse Managers' Empowering Behavioral Scale for Staff Nurses (NMEB-SN).

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Methods: The NMEB-SN was developed based on the staff nurses' perspectives.

Implementation and evaluation of a primary diabetes prevention programme for young adult employees in Japan: A non-randomized controlled trial.

Aim: To determine the effects of a primary diabetes prevention programme created for healthy young adults.

Design: This study was a non-randomized controlled trial.

Methods: The participants were 20-39-year-old employees of two automobile sales companies.

Factors associated with depressive symptoms in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: A prospective cohort study.

Aim: To identify the association between possible factors and depression among post-percutaneous coronary intervention patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Methods: Sixty-eight post-percutaneous coronary intervention patients with acute coronary syndrome were enrolled between January 2016 - June 2017.