The purpose of this study was to identify issues with nursing administrator development in the Nursing Division of our hospital. In order to identify issues in the workshops, we conducted a questionnaire survey with chief nurses who participated in a competency workshop for them to become nursing administrators at the Nursing Division of Hospital A, and by reviewing their management behavior, we analyzed the insights they acquired. We used a qualitative, inductive research method that involved administering a written survey to 22 chief nurses who work at the hospital. The survey items were designed to find out what the participants learned, how they intended to put that knowledge to use, and what they felt during the workshop. Our analysis identified two categories of insights: those that would translate into behavior and those that represented new knowledge. The former comprised 22 subcategories and the latter 3 subcategories. Because the issues identified (maintaining conviction, customer orientation, and quality assurance) were limited to knowledge-based insights, these should be improved to become “insights that would translate into behavior” so that they can be put into practice in managing behaviors on the ward.

In Japan, where the population is aging, it is important to train exercise instructors who promote health in older adults. Previous studies demonstrated that an intergenerational program that was not focused on exercise improved university students’ perceptions of older adults, but the effects of an intergenerational exercise-related program have not been explored. This study investigated whether obtaining experience in providing exercise instruction to older adults improved university students’ attitudes toward these adults and their willingness to acquire exercise instruction-related qualifications. Second-year university students majoring in sport and health sciences were divided into intervention (n = 29) or control (n = 33) groups. Students in the intervention group participated in a 5-session program that involved choreographing exercise with music and giving exercise instructions to community-dwelling older adults. In the final session, the students and older adults performed the exercise together, and this session was videotaped. Explicit attitudes toward older adults improved from before to after the program in the intervention group. The percentage of students in the intervention group who were willing to acquire exercise instruction-related qualifications was greater after the program than before it. In the control group, there were no detectable differences in these measures before and after the study period. Students’ feelings (i.e., vitality, stability, pleasure, and arousal) acutely improved after each session in the intervention group. These results may imply that after experiencing the provision of exercise instruction to older adults, university students’ explicit attitudes toward these adults and their willingness to obtain exercise instruction-related qualifications were increased.