Inter-brain Synchronization between Nurse and Patient During Drawing Blood

Abstract

Tacit knowledge such as "proficient skills" and "knacks" in nursing skills seems not to be applied by nurse alone but by the interaction between nurse and patient. The purpose of this study is to analyze their interaction from the point of interbrain synchrony. In this study blood drawing technique was adopted as nursing skills and experiments of drawing blood were carried out in nurse-patient pairs. Experimental participants were 4 nurses and 6 patients. The brain waves in the occipital portion of nurse and patient were simultaneously measured using portable EEG devices during drawing blood. The ratios of alpha-band power were calculated for each of the nurse and patient, and the cross-correlations were obtained between every pairs of them. The results indicated that the brain waves of patient were synchronized with those of nurse by several seconds behind. Furthermore the synchronization was not recognized in abnormal circumstances that nurses failed in the drawing blood.

A Two-Person Neuroscience Approach for Social Anxiety: A Paradigm With Interbrain Synchrony and Neurofeedback

“…This branch of research is concerned with understanding how neural synchrony, proposed between two or more brains, can occur and why. Recent InBS studies have found that weaker synchronisations occur when one member of a dyad reported having previously suffered anxiety (Kawano et al, 2016) or if members of the dyad were strangers compared to acquaintances (Atzil et al, 2012;Kinreich et al, 2017). 2-PNS argues that, particularly for social dynamics, the whole picture can be better represented by the findings from all interacting individuals (García and Ibáñez, 2014).…”