Today, the patient's needs for medical care and services have become diversified and medical information spreads widely and swiftly at that. In these circumstances, nurses are strongly expected to further develop their faculties of nursing and appropriately responding to the patient's emotional state. To nurture capable nurses, it is neccessary to establish an adequate training and performance evaluation system.
 In 2002, we had a chance to participate in the planning of “the Mie prefectural enterprise for continuous nurse education and appropriate nursing staff arrangement”. Based on this experience, we made a guideline for continuous nurse education, practice manual and an appraisal table for each rank.
 Meanwhile, The Mie Prefectural Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for Health and Welfare, was studying a faculty appraisal system for all staffs. We started our nurse education program incorporating this system.
 Our nurse education program is made up of five ability-areas, that is, (1) nursing practice, (2) education to the lower class nurse and research, (3) human-relationship achievement, (4) nursing team management and (5) risk management.
 The outcome of this program was examined by the appraisal committee according to the improvement level in nursing abilities (including both skills and sensibility).

Today, the patient's needs for medical care and services have become diversified and medical information spreads widely and swiftly at that. In these circumstances, nurses are strongly expected to further develop their faculties of nursing and appropriately responding to the patient's emotional state. To nurture capable nurses, it is neccessary to establish an adequate training and performance evaluation system.In 2002, we had a chance to participate in the planning of “the Mie prefectural enterprise for continuous nurse education and appropriate nursing staff arrangement”. Based on this experience, we made a guideline for continuous nurse education, practice manual and an appraisal table for each rank.Meanwhile, The Mie Prefectural Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for Health and Welfare, was studying a faculty appraisal system for all staffs. We started our nurse education program incorporating this system.Our nurse education program is made up of five ability-areas, that is, (1) nursing practice, (2) education to the lower class nurse and research, (3) human-relationship achievement, (4) nursing team management and (5) risk management.The outcome of this program was examined by the appraisal committee according to the improvement level in nursing abilities (including both skills and sensibility).
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Patient compliance with presciibed drug regimens may be improved by finding out incom-pliant patients and exhorting them to take their medicines, but it's not an easy task. We telephoned those who had not shown up at the pharmacy within 7 days after the preparation of their drugs to come and receive the dispensed drugs. When the dispensed drugs had to be disposed of after a long misplacement, we prepared a “patient compliance report” to inform the attending physicians about noncompliance by attaching it to the patient's visit history. Further, of when they visited the hospital again we gave guidance about drug compliance at the window to those whose dispensed drugs had been disposed.
We contacted 63 patients by telephone during the 3-month period from January to March 1995 of the patients who left their drugs at the pharmacy, and found 30.6% of them had some compliance problems. Telephone calls were effective for reducing the proportion of the patients whose dispensed drugs were disposed of to 0.03% from 0.11%, the percentage worked our during the 5-month period from August to December 1994 during which no telephone call was made. We reported 19 drug disposal cases to the physicians by means of the “patient compliance report”. All the physicians appreciated it as they were brought to a realizatopn of the drug compliance rate of their patients.
As there were some patients who did not know that their drugs were prescribed, we considered how to cope with the left dispensed drugs would not be a question of the pharmacy alone. It should be handled as a problem of the whole hospital from the stage ofconsultation to payment.

At Saitama Medical University, experience training for first-year medical students was conducted for the purpose of communicating with people who live in an institution and have severe motor and intellectual disabilities. However, due to the spread of COVID-19, training at this institution has been suspended completely, which has led us to conduct the training remotely. In the remote training sessions, people with disabilities who only had nonverbal communication tools joined a Zoom meeting where they were able to communicate with students from inside the institution. In the past, there have been other times when training was suspended due to infectious disease outbreaks. Despite this, remote training has made it possible to carry out training without being affected by the environment. Compared to conventional training, remote training did not allow students to experience the atmosphere of the institution or interaction with the people on-site. However, it did have other advantages in that it enabled students to understand the disabilities at a deep level, making them realize the importance of nonverbal communication, and increasing their motivation to learn.