New nursing staff members are libable to suffer from stress-related disorders such as insomnia, anorexia and/or truancy. Some are obliged to quit their jobs early. In our hospital, we have carried out a type of “group collage therapy” for the purpose of giving mental and physical relaxation to novice nurses. In this study, we have analyzed the responses of the new nurses to our of questionnaire about the hands-on training and the experience they had gotten thus far, and got one hypothesis that our “group collage therapy” is positively related to a speedy recovery from their working stress. We report this study results with some bibliographic considerations.

Our hospital has a nutrition support team (NST) serving inpatients of all department. Two years ago, the team started activities with the motto “Apt nutritional management for inpatients”. It is an interdepartmental unit consisting of physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists and speech therapists. Initially we found it difficult to make time to join forces, but now it has become possible to screen patients for undernourishment on a weekly basis while making nutritional assessment and planning, and holding consultations. The main purpose of the consultations is to improve the nutritional status of patients according to plans formulated after nutritional assessment made at the request of physicians and nurses in charge of the patients. To achieve the objective, we are expected to concentrate all our efforts and brains. This paper presents some consultation cases we have handled. In addition, the nutritional assessment and nutritional intervention activities of our hospital are described.
Nutrition Assessment ; Nutritional status ; Nutritional Support ; Hospitals ; Consultation