The units surveyed include medical-surgical, telemetry, intensive care step-down, obstetrical, oncology, orthopedic, bariatric and geri-psych inpatient services. Seventy two nurses, representative of a 24 hour staff census were surveyed. Day and night shift were sampled equally; responses to the ...
Japanese hospitals having inpatient wards were approached using snowball sampling methods. We approached medium to large-scale hospitals, chosen through the connections of the first author (MI). The first author sent an e-mail or letter with an explanation of the study and an invitation to partici...
The duration was about 90 min for each focus group. The semi-structured interview, which lasted 60 min, was conducted days later with open questions. The questions were the same in both the focus groups and the interview. Only one interview was conducted due to data saturation. Table 2. ...