Research Themes

• Effective worksite support for "reality shock" as experienced by new midwives: With focus on the one-year time point after start of professional work
  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
  Kyorin University
  01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2017
  Investigation was made of what kinds of support received by new midwives at their worksites helped to alleviate "reality shock." Study was made of midwives in their second working year, and results showed a tendency of recovery from reality shock after one year of work. As for effective kinds of worksite support, evaluative support from other nurses who started working at the same time period significantly raised the autonomy of new midwives. It was also made clear that a goal for new midwives is to have experienced 28 cases of delivery assistance by the one-year work time point.