I started my career as a nurse at a university hospital's surgical ward. My professional experience also include teaching, graduate study, research.
My research interest focuses on adult and elderly persons who are at risk for or who have developed delirium (acute confusion), who are living with dementia or cerebrovascular conditions. I especially focus on those persons in acute care or perioperative care phases.
My research data may include complex, repeated-measure variables; thus, I am also exploring a method to describe and analyze such data.
Psychological changes and responses of family of patients who experienced delirium during hospitalization: The review of the literature published between 1983 and 2010
Saori Takeuchi, Shigeaki Watanuki
Journal of Japanese Society of Nursing Science for National Health Services 8(1) 27-36 Feb 2012 [Refereed]
Association between repeated participation to basic life support education and learners' level of self-confidence and misgivings regarding execution of skills: Toward effective instruction program based upon learner’s progress
Saki Kobayashi, Shigeaki Watanuki
Journal of Japanese Society of Nursing Science for National Health Services 8(1) 37-50 Feb 2012 [Refereed]
American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 15 290-298 May 2006 [Refereed]
Structural visualization of expert nursing: Development of an assessment and intervention algorithm for delirium following abdominal and thoracic surgeries.
Watanuki S, Takeuchi T, Matsuda Y, Terauchi H, Takahashi Y, Goshima M, Nishimoto Y, Tsuru S
Studies in health technology and informatics 122 925-926 2006 [Refereed]
This paper explores the theoretical background of validation approach as one of the therapeutic emotion-oriented approaches for confused persons. Persons experiencing acute or chronic confusion need physiological interventions as well as psychosocial and environmental interventions. Although the effectiveness of the validation approach is inconclusive and compromised by a limited number of scie...
The purpose of this paper was to explore the nature and process of decision-making for persons with delirium. Decision-making situations for patients with delirium involve persons with delirium, their surrogate decision-makers, their significant others, and health care professionals who are responsible for supporting patients and family to make their right decisions. Brock's (1994) three-princi...
Association between adverse events and adherence of patients with gastric cancer who underwent gastrectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy with an oral fluoropyrimidine (S-1).
Watanuki1, S., Iino, K., Okamoto, T.
The 16th International Conference on Cancer Nursing Mar 2010
Nurses’ assessment and interventions for adult and elderly post-operative patients who are at high-risk for developing or presently experiencing acute confusion
Sakai, I., Watanuki, S., Torita, M., Kawasaki, M., Matsukawa, K.
The 1st International Nursing Research Conference of World Academy of Nursing Science Sep 2009
Patterns and risk factors of acute confusion among adult and elderly patients undergoing general surgeries at a university hospital.
Watanuki, S., Sakai, I., Torita, M., Kawasaki, M., Matsukawa, K.
The 1st International Nursing Research Conference of World Academy of Nursing Science Sep 2009
Structural visualization of expert nursing: Development of an assessment and intervention algorithm for delirium following abdominal and thoracic surgeries
5) Watanuki S, Takeuchi T, Matsuda Y, Terauchi H, Takahashi Y, Goshima M, Nishimoto Y, Tsuru S.
9th International Congress of Nursing Informatics Jun 2006
Neurocognitive Function, Delirium, and Patient Perceptions in the Perioperative Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patient
