Purpose
To clarify and discuss challenges in consensus on training newly graduated home visiting nurses（new graduates）in collaboration with university faculty members（faculty）and nurses of a home-visit nursing agency（agency）from the cross-cultural viewpoint.
Method
The collaborators in this research were 3 nurses of 1 administrator and 2 nursing staffs from 1 agency who supported the new graduates’ learning, 1 supervisor from the prefectural nursing association, and 2 new graduates. Analysis was conducted on 19 records of proceedings from learning supporter meetings, records of 4 interviews assessing the new graduates’ goal achievement, transcripts of 17 individual interview surveys by faculty, and so forth. Descriptions about issues in consensus forming between faculty and nurses were extracted from the records and transcripts, and simply summarized, focusing on changes in problem recognition and behaviors. Next, the problems in consensus forming were discussed from the cross-cultural viewpoint.
Results
The problems related to the consensus forming between nurses and faculty were difficulty agreeing to the application of protocol for learning visiting nursing skills, and the application of self-evaluation sheets for the new graduates’ learning tasks. The nurses prioritized skill acquisition and application to users. On the other hand, the faculty focused on developing learning skills as lifelong learners. Understanding necessity and effects of the application of them for new graduates, nurses and faculty made an agreement.
Discussion
The issue of consensus building between nurses and faculty was supposed to be based on differences in cultural factors arising from roles in both organizations. Understanding the cultural factors each other and trying to accept actively the other cultural context was supposed to make effective support for the new graduates in collaboration with nurses and faculty.

Objective: The aim of this study was to clarify adult stroke patients' perceived values toward health using interpretive phenomenology. In this study, "values toward health" referred to patients' positive perceptions of physical, psychological, social and spiritual health throughout life.
Methods: Data were collected using unstructured interviews with 11 stroke outpatients aged 30-50 years. Findings were analyzed based on Benner's interpretive phenomenology.
Results: We identified the following nine perceived values toward health: (1) Living in society with others who recognize me as an individual despite my disability; (2) Having a job that is both normal and important; (3) Being helpful to family members; (4) Striving to make life changes; (5) A person that talk is important; (6) Not imposing upon others; (7) Living with one's mortality; (8) Recuperating; and (9) Remaining mobile despite paralysis.
Discussion: These values suggest that expressed view of life and death, public participation, independence, value to living, convalescent craving, autonomy and maintenance of home, life and healthy, which expressed how mature adults living person live.

　Diabetes is called xiao-ke in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM has been used to treat diabetes for thousands of years, and the medical system is based on extensive clinical experience. This study aimed to review the current status and future issues of the application of TCM in nursing care of diabetes.
　We reviewed Chinese papers published from 1984 to September 2014 using the keywords "diabetes," "Chinese medicine," and "nursing" to search the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database. This yielded 418 candidates, and we fully analyzed 170 relevant research articles.
　Through this literature review, we summarize the current status of diabetes nursing in TCM as follows: studies on diabetes nursing with TCM increase yearly, studies on the non-diagnosis of diabetes are rare, application of diabetes nursing in TCM has mostly been conducted in hospital settings, studies on diabetes nursing using TCM in China are in an initial stage, variations in diabetes nursing with TCM are abundant, and conventional diabetes nursing that includes TCM is more effective. Future issues of diabetes nursing in TCM include: expanding the use of diabetes nursing with TCM to communities, using TCM constitution nursing to prevent diabetes, and detailed examination of nursing care of diabetes using a combination of TCM and Western medicine.

　Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Vipassana meditation from India have all been used as stress reduction approaches in Western medical care in recent years. The Lothlorien Therapeutic Community, located in the southeast Scotland, adopts the therapeutic approach of integrating Buddhist psychology into Western psychology. The Community is based on compassion and tolerance for others, both principles of which foster mental health recovery. It adopts Tara Rokpa Therapy among its mindfulness and relaxation methods, in addition to Ronald David (R. D.) Laing's existential phenomenology and Loren Mosher's community mental health activities. Through these therapeutic approaches, residents learn how to build relationships with others along with self-awareness. These rich relational experiences help them form similar future connections in their own communities. The potential integration of Buddhist and Western psychology will be further explored in the future in psychological theory, and integrated approaches will be further applied to psychotherapy in Western clinical settings. This warrants a reconsideration of community mental health care and support networks from the perspective of cultural values such as Buddhist-influenced compassion and tolerance in Japan.