Effects of a Hospice and Palliative Care Education Program Including Meaning in Life on Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Care and Meaning in Life Among Nursing College Students

Kim, Sook-Nam; Kim, Hyun-Ju; Choi, Soon-Ock

doi:10.5977/jkasne.2011.17.3.454

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“…Our findings are consistent with the result from hospice palliative education including logotherapy, with nursing college student participants [23] and the result of death education program with general population [24,25]. And also the findings are consistent with the results from hospice education with care workers participants [26,27].…”

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Development and Evaluation of an Education Program for Professional Palliative Care Nursing

Yeun

Kwon²,

Lee

2015

J Korean Acad Nurs

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INTRODUCTIONHaving a respectful death is an important aspect of human need. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual [1]. Some countries such as Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, have well-developed home care nursing services. The general practitioners and home care nurses are responsible for primary medical care while the hospice facilities in the community care for the emergency symptoms of the patients. On the other hand, in South Korea, many terminal patients are treated in the wards of the general hospitals by nurses who do not have professional education in palliative care [2].The hospice care services in South Korea were started by the hospice "Mary's Little Sisters" established in the 1960s [3] and has been provided mainly by hospitals or organizations owned and/or run by religious groups. With the increased interest in the quality of life, the government has launched a medical project concerning cancer management. Palliative care is becoming an increasingly larger area for clinical practice. In the medical field, palliative care has not been established as a specialty, but in the nursing field, several institutions are providing professional palliative care education for nurses, and Master's degree programs for specialized nursing training. Yeun,Young-Ran·Kwon,Min·Lee,Kyoung-Soon palliative care is broad, however, not every nurse can afford to enroll in a six-month to one-year program for professional education, or in a Master's degree program. As such, a short palliative care professional education program is highly necessary.Nurses represent the largest sector of the health care workforce and provide most of the formal palliative care [4]. The nurses who deliver palliative care should excel at providing physical, mental, and spiritual care to patients. They ought to provide symptom management and communicate with the patients to satisfy their needs, and help the patients to achieve a good death. The physical care that most hospitals offer cannot fulfill the requirements of the needs for palliative care professionally and efficiently [5]. Nurses, who have difficulties caring for patients with untreatable diseases, cannot be expected to help such patients and their families accept the prospect of death [2]. According to a study conducted on the nurses at general hospitals who had cared for terminal patients, 70% of those nurses did not have an education relating to palliative care, and the level of recognition of a good death was moderate in both the general nurses and the intensive care unit (ICU) nurses [6]. The necessity of palliative care education is great, because a study reported that the nurses with a higher recognition of a good death showed positive attitudes and much better performances ...

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Development and Evaluation of an Education Program for Professional Palliative Care Nursing

Yeun

Kwon²,

Lee

2015

J Korean Acad Nurs

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“…암병동 간호사를 대상으로 한 국외연구로는 종양병 동과 혈액종양내과 간호사들의 스트레스 연구 (8), 암병 동과 완화의료병동 및 중환자실 간호사의 소진에 대한 연구 (9), 암병동 간호사의 교육 프로그램이 정서적 소진 에 미치는 영향 (10), 예술요법이 암병동 간호사들의 소 진에 미치는 효과(11) 등이 있으며, 국내연구는 임상간 호사의 임종환자 간호체험(2), 암병동 간호사의 임종간 호 스트레스 (12), 임상간호사의 죽음에 대한 인식과 임 종간호 스트레스 (13), 의미요법이 포함된 호스피스, 완 화간호교육이 간호대학생의 임종간호 태도와 생의 의 미에 미치는 효과 (5) Table 3).…”

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Cancer Unit Nurses’ End-of-Life Care-Related Stress, Under standing and Training Needs

Kim

Lee

2012

Korean J Hosp Palliat Care

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This study was performed to identify the level of stress perceived by nurses who attend dying patients in the cancer care unit; their understanding regarding end-of-life care and related training needs. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with 151 nurses stationed at the cancer care units of four general hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi province in Korea. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires and the response rate was 96%. The data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and Pearson's correlation analysis. SPSS 12.0 was used for data analysis. Results: Nurses experienced a high level of stress in the end-of-life care settings. Their understanding of end-of-life care was above the mid-point of the scale while their training needs for end-of-life care was relatively high. The more experienced the nurses were, the more stressed they were, particularly due to excessive workload. Nurses who served longer in the cancer unit tended to show greater needs for end-of-life care training. Conclusion: This study found nurses perform end-of-life care with a high level of stress but with insufficient understanding, and thus, showed great needs for related training. Such findings can be useful to develop an end-of-life care training program for nurses.

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“…Therefore, it is necessary for college students to recognize the positive meaning of death via education before becoming a nurse. This education intervention will help to reduce fear of on-the-job training and help adapt to field practice if nursing students have a clear perception of death by understanding death and thinking about the meaning of life and death prior to on-the-job training [21]. In addition, we believe that the formation of meaningful positive deaths will improve the respect for life and will of nursing students, and will ultimately help them grow into a nurse who can really help the patient who is about to die.…”

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“…Until now, no studies have investigated the factors affecting respect for life and will in nursing college students. Most of the existing studies have a single-variable level of influence on death and bioethical awareness [5,10,11], or the difference in perception or attitude toward death and bioethics of health students and non-health students [1]. Therefore, this study aims to identify the effects of meaning of death, death anxiety, and death concern on nursing students' respect for life and will, and to utilize them as basic data to develop and operate an effective bioethics education program for nursing students.…”

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Factors Influencing Respect for Life and Will of Korean Nursing Students

Park¹,

Kim²

2019

Sustainable Innovations in Education and Technology

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Acquiring knowledge about death and bioethics and cultivating bioethical consciousness are important for nursing college students. This study investigates the factors influencing the respect for life and will of nursing students. The study results found that the factors affecting respect for life and will of nursing students were positive meaning of death, death concern, death anxiety, and religion. The study results reveal that nursing students must understand the meaning of death and reduce death anxiety by improving their understanding of the meanings of death.

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Effects of a Hospice and Palliative Care Education Program Including Meaning in Life on Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Care and Meaning in Life Among Nursing College Students

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Development and Evaluation of an Education Program for Professional Palliative Care Nursing

Development and Evaluation of an Education Program for Professional Palliative Care Nursing

Cancer Unit Nurses’ End-of-Life Care-Related Stress, Under standing and Training Needs

Factors Influencing Respect for Life and Will of Korean Nursing Students

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