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A Mixed Method Study for Exploring the Difficulties in End-of-Life Care and End-of-Life Care Competency in Nurses Who Take Care of Cancer Patients.
- Source :
- Asian Oncology Nursing; Jun2021, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p98-109, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Purpose: This study investigated the difficulties in end-of-life care and end-of-life care competency in nurses who take care of cancer patients. Methods: In the mixed method, a structured questionnaire on end-of-life care stress and competency was conducted on 115 nurses caring for cancer patients, and 19 were interviewed for qualitative research. For the collected quantitative data, descriptive statistics were used. For the qualitative study, the contents of the interview were summarized and systematized using the content analysis method to derive the main themes. Results: The mean end-of-life care stress was 4.08 points (out of 5) and the mean end-of-life care competency was 3.43 points (out of 5). Four themes and 11 sub-themes for the difficulties in end-of-life care were identified, and the four themes are as follows: (1) regret over limited end-of-life nursing, (2) different aspects of persistent emotional distress, (3) overloaded duty at the end-of-life (4) conflicts encountered in decision-making for life-sustaining treatment. Four themes and eight sub-themes for end-of-life care competency were identified, and the four themes are as follows: (1) empathy and listening skills, (2) communication skills, (3) clinical nursing experience and education, (4) clinical nursing competency. Conclusion: It was confirmed that nurses caring for cancer patients had a high level of end-of-life care stress, and it is necessary to develop a program to reduce difficulties in end-of-life care and increase end-of-life care competency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TERMINAL care
EMPATHY
RESEARCH methodology
JOB stress
NURSING specialties
COMMUNICATIVE competence
INTERVIEWING
QUANTITATIVE research
CANCER patients
PSYCHOLOGY of nurses
QUALITATIVE research
CONFLICT (Psychology)
CLINICAL competence
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
DECISION making
CONTENT analysis
HOSPICE nurses
EMOTIONS
LISTENING
CLINICAL education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Korean
- ISSN :
- 22872434
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Asian Oncology Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151357406
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5388/aon.2021.21.2.98