The present study aimed to develop a scale that measures abilities necessary for administrators to build collaborative relationships between nurses and care workers from the viewpoint of care workers working at long-term care facilities. First, we clarified the preliminary survey and measurement concept and prepared questions for the prototype scale. Next, for the development of the prototype scale which consisted of 34 questions confirmed through averages, standard deviations, and Item-Total correlation, we obtained responses from 508 care workers and performed factor analysis, stability analysis, internal reliability analysis, and criterion-related validity analysis with related scales. The results showed that the overall scale and five subscales, “conflict management”, “intraward communication”, “building trust”, “understanding of expertise”, and “effort to share goals”, were shown to have construct validity, reliability, validity, and temporal stability.

Better work-life balance among healthcare workers may contribute to patient safety as well as their well-being. This study aimed to determine the relationship between paramedic’s workloads and outcomes relating to patient safety.

A systematic review was conducted for the literatures which were published from January 1964 to August 2018 in Ichushi Web, and which were published from August 2008 to August 2018 in PubMed.

As a results, 26 literatures relating to nurse’s workloads, 2 literatures relating to pharmacist’s workloads and 7 other literatures were obtained. In those literatures, there were 7 systematic reviews, 28 observational studies with control groups, but no randomized controlled study. There was no clear evidence that paramedic’s workloads negatively affect patient’s mortality. On the other hand, it was suggested that increased nurse’s workload could increase the number of nosocomial infections at intensive care units and medication errors.

The present study aimed to understand the information shared through websites that can be used as owned media by each medical facility as the novel coronavirus infection spreads. Thus, we conducted a survey among patients, families, and interested parties at 632 regional medical care support hospitals across Japan on information regarding novel coronavirus infection provided on websites. The results showed that there were 18 types of information regarding novel coronavirus infection. Information about visitations was found at 602 facilities (95.3%), information about consultations at the Coronavirus Consultation Center was found at 423 facilities (66.9%), information about polymerase chain reaction test was found at 138 facilities (21.8%), and information about telephone call re-examination/phoned prescription was found at 82 facilities (13.0%). At many medical facilities, information about novel coronavirus infection was being provided, but the information had regional bias, indicating a point that information was provided according to each situation.