The objective of the present study was to elucidate the intent to return to work among potential nurses living in Chiba Prefecture. Potential nurses raising children completed an anonymous self-report questionnaire survey regarding the following: feelings toward returning to work, timing at which a return to work would be feasible, wishes regarding return to work, concerns regarding return to work, and requirements for returning to work.
Among the 242 subjects analyzed, 196 were undecided on returning to work. Regarding the timing of returning to work, many subjects reported the time around their youngest child's entrance to elementary school or earlier. As for wishes regarding return to work, common responses were working at a clinic or an outpatient unit, part-time work, and day shifts on weekdays. Many of the concerns and requirements related to returning to work were related to balancing family and work and having been absent from work.
Many of the subjects in the present study intended to return to work, and their specific concerns and requirements related to returning to work were clarified. In addition to enhancement of pre-return training, introduction of more advanced systems for shortened work hours and holidays was thought to constitute work-life balance (WLB) support that promotes return to work among potential nurses raising children.

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The present study aimed to clarify the current state of health guidance for pregnant women regarding seafood consumption. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 1,688 nurses who consented to participate by mail. These nurses were involved in maternity care at 134 of 1,000 institutions that were randomly selected from the Welfare and Medical Service Network System.
Responses were received from 968 nurses (collection rate, 58.4%; valid response rate, 98.3%). A total of 131 (13.5%) nurses had received questions from pregnant women regarding seafood consumption in the past year. Qualitative analysis of free responses to these questions showed "pros and cons of seafood consumption", "types of seafood suitable for consumption", "amount of seafood suitable for consumption", "appropriate preparation of seafood for consumption", "effects of mercury on the fetus", "effects of mercury on the mother" and "general properties of mercury". Although nurses provided answers if questioned, proactive health guidance related to seafood consumption appeared to be lacking. Nurses need to emphasize the effects of mercury on the fetus and the safest policy for consuming seafood with high mercurial content. Additionally, they should highlight the beneficial effects of seafood on growth and development of the fetus. They should also promote safe and worry-free consumption of seafood.

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[Purpose] NKCP has the anti-coagulation effect and enhances the fibrinolysis. I examined the inhibitory effect of platelet aggregation of NKCP. [Method] Subjects are twelve young healthy males (22.3±2.1 years old) and six elder healthy males (45.0±2.8 years old). I measured spontaneous platelet aggregation (SPA), and Epinephrine induced aggregation (EA), and NKCP inhibited aggregation, using the laser light scattering method (PA200; Kowa). [Result] (1) Low concentration NKCP enhanced SPA and high concentration NKCP (10mg/ml) reduced SPA significantly. (2) NKCP did not show the significant effect on the Epinephrine enhanced aggregation. [Conclusion] It was suggested that NKCP had inhibitory effect on SPA but did not had significant effect on stress enhanced platelet aggregation.

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The aim of this study was to identify potential applications for remote nursing methods using information technology ("telenursing") by clarifying the need for telenursing among endoscopically treated patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. We conducted a questionnaire survey on patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer underwent endoscopic surgery, and performed statistical and qualitative analyses on the responses of 30 patients. The results indicated that 56.7% of respondents perceived the need for telenursing. The reasons for this perceived need were a desire to address doubts and anxieties that arose in the course of treatment without the need for ambulatory care, as well as the fact that the patient would be able to more calmly accept the situation if he/she could consult with a health professional while remaining at home. The most desired means of communication were the telephone followed by email due to their respective simplicity and convenience, while other patients selected more than 2 means of communication with the belief that a range of means should be provided in response to the type of consultation sought and the information literacy of the patient. Patient concerns when using telenursing took the form of misgivings about the disclosure of private information and the ability to accurately communicate one's feelings to the health professional.

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The present study examined the method of exercise of "Blood-taking" by conducting a semi-structured interview survey for 11 nursing teachers out of 11 universities and studied on what the teachers put great importance in technical education. When we performed in the simulator, there was an education effect to be able to do graded learning and understanding and the confirmation of the technical principle, and the need of the practice that set a scene near practically and the preparations for simulator which we could practice was found. When we performed it between students, there were independent learning, the understanding of the situation of the patients, an education effect called the learning from a real experience, and the preparations for student for the enforcement, safety measures, accident services, the need of the security at practice time were found. What teachers emphasized included well-grounded safe technique, technique of taking into consideration the patients, mastery of responsibility/role and way of thinking as a nurse, analysis of self-action and technique of having a sense of reality, we considered when we influenced the method of exercises of "Blood-taking".

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This study aimed to elucidate the intentions and actions of healthcare-related educational institutions with respect to safety confirmation during a large-scale disaster and also to use the results as a basis for developing a disaster response manual. A questionnaire survey on safety confirmation activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake was mailed to 600 students and faculty members at the Chiba Prefectural University of Health Sciences, of whom 232 responded (response rate: 38.8%). The survey results revealed that regardless of students and university officials most wanted to contact their family members for safety confirmation, especially their mother. It was also found that the most frequently used means of contact were mobile phones and SMS (Short Mail System) text messages. Social networking services hosted in the cloud or on overseas servers proved to be a superior contact method due to their availability without congestion, yet their utilization was low. The survey results also revealed that 55% of the students had previously discussed emergency contact methods with their family members, 35% with university officials, and 17% with practical training place. It is important to inform students and faculty members of safety confirmation methods.

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We conducted the physical assessment for the nurses working at nursing homes for the elderly people in Chiba Prefecture. We evaluated the results of this year's execution of the program, which is the 3^rd year since it started, and set the themes for the next year: The training program consisted of 1) fundamental medical knowledge necessary for the physical assessment, 2) general knowledge on the physical assessment and the physical assessment on respiratory, circulatory and digestive organs, 3) implementation of case-based physical assessment, and 4) interchange of participants for sharing the practical problems and countermeasures. For the training session this year, there was attendance of 28 nursing workers from 28 institutions. Through discussion by the participants, it was found that the introduction of training methods based on the contents and cases mostly met their needs. On the other hand, from the participants, there were the training needs for the physical assessment methods for more specific symptoms and the subsequent methods to be addressed and/or the training needs of sharing and working together for the knowledge/technique/judgment in working with caregivers in their jobs. It was suggested that planning and conducting a training session for coping with such needs would be the task to be solved in future.

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