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The aim of this study is to enrich nursing education by clarifying the relationship between personality traits, motivation, and career paths in professional nursing. This cross-sectional study surveyed 150 nurses from a polyclinic in Japan that performs internal medicine and surgery. The survey covered several aspects of personality, work motivation, and career development using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, Work Motivation Scale, and Nurses' Job Career Scale. The demographics of the participants were also recorded. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the personality traits extraversion and agreeableness had a direct and positive impact on nurses' interest in team collaboration, but not on career development. Interest in career improvement was related to conscientiousness as a power toward purpose and openness as an aspect of curiosity. Conscientiousness and openness were indirectly related to the development and adjustment of interpersonal relationships and self-capability development through interest in career improvement. Interest in patient support positively impacted the implementation and pursuit of quality nursing. The findings highlight the need to account for individual differences in personality and motivation to support nurses' success during their nursing education and in the workplace.

Elderly people need a means to be able to move at their own will in order to stay socially active. One of the means of transportation is a mobility scooter. The purpose of this study was to find out how community-dwelling elderly people came to use a mobility scooter as a means of transportation and how they use it in their daily lives. We conducted a semi-structured interview with four participants regarding their background and actual experience of using a mobility scooter, and analyzed the data qualitatively and descriptively in three categories: Reason for Using a mobility scooter; Safe Use; and Activity and Participation. The reasons for using a mobility scooter were "Surrendered the driver's license", "Loss of means of mobility due to lower limb disability", "Interest in mobility scooters and Recommendation from others", and "Family support". "Safe use" consisted of four sub-categories: "Simple driving operation and safety assistance equipment", "Handling in a dangerous situation", "Current situation of daily use of mobility scooters without danger", and "Intention to continue using mobility scooters". In the "Activity and Participation" category, the three subcategories were "Maintain and expand activities", "Interact with others", and "Enjoy shopping by myself". While the use of mobility scooters enhances a person's life, it was suggested that efforts to prevent accidents should be made.

This study aimed to clarify the factors related to self-efficacy experienced by psychiatric nurses. Analysis of qualitative descriptive data from a free self-description questionnaire administered to 16 psychiatric nurses working in psychiatric hospitals revealed 24 codes across the following 8 categories as factors that increase self-efficacy: A1. possibility of practical use in nursing, A2. nursing judgment, A3. improvement of psychiatric symptoms, A4. the patients presenting a positive attitude, A5. building a relationship of trust with the patients, A6. building a relationship of trust with other nurses, A7. work progressing according to plan and A8. team medical practice. Twenty-five codes across the following 10 categories were identified as factors that decrease self-efficacy: B1. lack of communication, B2. uncertainty in caregiving, B3. recurrence of psychiatric symptoms, B4. feeling overpowered by a patient, B5. sense of being too busy to work adequately, B6. difficulty in bringing about self-improvement, B7. sense of loss regarding one's role as a nurse, B8. lack of physical strength, B9. mechanical performance of nursing and B10. fluctuating view of nursing due to mistakes. These factors require intervention for psychiatric nurses' self-efficacy.

The aim of this study was to explore the relations between nurses' difficulties in caring for persons living with mental disorders and negative feeling about hospitalization of these persons in general wards. Out of 150 nurses working in a local general hospital in Japan, 86 were eligible for this study. Exploratory factor analysis of the question items for symptoms and conditions with which the nurses had difficulty revealed two principal factors: symptoms like psychosis and neurosis. These factors were then compared in terms of the attitudes that nurses had toward hospitalizing those persons with mental disorders. The greater the negative attitudes toward hospitalizing the persons with mental disorders, the greater the difficulty in caring for them. It is thought that symptoms like psychosis were considered to be caused by schizophrenia, epilepsy, and dementia, and symptoms like neurosis were caused by mood disorder, personality disorder and depression. These principal factors seemed to be with two different difficulties. One is about dealing with their symptoms, another is to distinguish them. Non-psychiatric nurses seemed to be working without confidence in caring for those with mental health disorders. We thought the workloads were increased by symptoms like psychosis and mental burdens on nurses as emotional labors were increased by symptoms like neurosis. Therefore, it is necessary for nurses working in general wards to improve the consultation support system about mental disorders.

In this report, we surveyed the occupational stress of psychiatric department nurses who said that the burnout rate was high and the turnover rate of nurses who quit shortly after being hired. Insight into the future of such research is described. In previous research, the occupational stress of psychiatric department nurses varied by each ward function, such as the wards of psychiatric department acute period, the psychiatric department recuperation period and the psychiatric department geriatric period, in which much research concerning the stress of psychiatric department nurses has been reported. However, at present, many of the questionnaire investigations used to measure and evaluate the occupational stress of psychiatric department nurses have not used a standard set up based on knowledge concerning the occupational stress of psychiatric department nurses. Hereafter, in research on the stress of psychiatric department nurses, standards with enough reliability and validity to measure and evaluate the occupational stress of psychiatric department nurses are still being searched for. Also, the development of mental health care in the psychiatric department ward according to these standards is expected.

The aim of the present study is to identify stressors (causes of stress) for psychiatric department nurses, and to compare the differing stress variables and levels of stress encountered in the acute ward and the recuperation ward. The study uses a brief work stress questionnaire and then asks 24 questions relating to the particular stresses that nurses in a psychiatric department may encounter and the length of time they are exposed to them. Answers were obtained from 36 nurses and associate nurses in two psychiatric departments (breakdown: Hospital A psychiatric department acute ward, 11 nurses; Hospital B psychiatric department recuperation ward, 25 nurses). Each subscale was analyzed using factor analysis, and the factor scores and item score were analyzed using Two-way ANOVA. The results of this analysis show that the factor scores for recuperation ward nurses were significantly higher than those for nurses from acute ward in the "atmosphere" factor from the brief work stress questionnaire, and in all factors ("knowledge and technology in nursing", "actual caring", "fear of violence" and "directionality of work") in the subscale "Stressors among Nurses in Psychiatric Department", indicating that nurses in recuperation ward had high levels of stress.