Biography:
Ms. Oshima studied nursing at Kitasato University, Japan, and graduated with an MS degree in 2005. She is a faculty member of the Department of Nursing at Juntendo University, Japan. She works in the field of psychiatric and mental health nursing and is in the second year of Ph.D. program at Juntendo University. Her major was mental health nursing and research topic was difficulties in the nursing practice of patients with MDD. She believed that this would help build educational support for effective mental health support in nurses.
Title : Development of self-assessment scale of difficulties in nursing practice of individuals with major depressive disorder: Process of developing scale item proposal