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• TITLE: Changes in Japanese Nurses’ Awareness of Patient Interactions Following a Japanese Tea Ceremony

  AUTHORS: Mayumi Uno

  KEYWORDS: Interventional Methods, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Nurse-Patient Relationships

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Nursing, Vol.7 No.7, July 20, 2017

  ABSTRACT: This study provided foundational data for use in nursing interventional methods for improving nurse-patient relationships. This was a descriptive study on the effectiveness of a Japanese tea ceremony (in Japanese: chado) intervention for improving nurse-patient relationships. I conducted a Japanese tea ceremony and examined changes in nurses’ awareness regarding interactions with patients after this intervention. The tea ceremonies were conducted with the cooperation of an Urasenke tea ceremony lecturer. A quiet environment with chairs and tables was provided for all participants while they provided written answers to a descriptive survey, which was administered before and after the intervention; they required approximately 20 min to complete the survey. The mean length of each nurse’s description was 800 characters. The tea ceremony was effective in bringing about definite changes in nurses’ awareness concerning interactions with patients. This study is useful in that it suggests how nurses can maintain good interpersonal relationships with patients.