• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2020

Purpose: The Act on Hospice and Palliative Care and Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients at the End of Life came into force in February 2018 in Korea. This study reviews the practices of end-of-life care for patients who withdrew or withheld life-sustaining treatment at a tertiary care hospital, addresses the limitations of the law, and discusses necessary steps to promote patient-centered self-determination. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of patients who died after agreeing to withhold life-sustaining treatment in 2018 at our university hospital. The cause of death, the intensity of end-of-life care, and other characteristics were reviewed and statistically analyzed. Results: Of a total of 334 patients, 231 (69%) died from cancer. The decision to stop life-sustaining treatment was made by family members for 178 patients overall (53.3%) and for 101 (43.7%) cancer patients, regardless of the patient's wishes. When the patient decided to stop life-sustaining treatment, the time from the authorization to withhold life-sustaining treatment to death was longer than when the decision was made by family members (28.7±41.3 vs 10.5±23.2 days, P<0.001). Conclusion: In many cases, the decision to discontinue life-sustaining treatment was made by the family, not by the patient. In order to protect human dignity based on the patients' self-determination, it is necessary for patients to understand their disease based on careful explanations from physicians. Ongoing survey-based research will be necessary in the future.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aims to describe and explore the experiences of visiting nurses so as to providing high-quality end-of-life care at home. Methods: Data was collected and recorded through in-depth interviews with 11 visiting nurses and transcribed verbatim. The data were analyzed with qualitative contents analysis. Data were collected from April 8 to July 30, 2021. Results: The results revealed the following four themes and ten sub-themes: The main themes were 'Dignified end-of-life caring practice at home', 'Providing integrated support of end-of-life family caregivers', 'Confronting the limits of visiting nursing at the end of life' and 'Reflection on life and feeling rewarded'. Visiting nurses have performed dignified end-of-life care at home and integrated support for family caregivers. Although the visiting nurse sometimes faced the limits of visiting nursing during end-of-life care, it was surveyed that they rewarded on their lives and felt rewarding through the end-of-life nursing experience. Conclusion: Practical and systematic training is needed to positively change the end-of-life care of visiting nurses. We propose programs, such as expert counseling, to improve coping skills in end-of-life care practice at home. Additionally, we propose various institutional supports which can support the limitations of end-of-life care provision.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.135-144
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• 2009

Purpose: This study was to analysis the effect of spiritual nursing care on meaning of life and spiritual well-being of terminal cancer older adult patients. Method: The study was a one group pre-posttest design. Data collection and intervention were performed from May 10 to December 20, 2007. The participants were 28 older adults in Jeonju city. Data was analyzed with paired t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient using the SPSS/WIN 12.0 program. Result: Meaning of life, spiritual well-being, religious well-being and existential well-being scores were significantly higher than before spiritual nursing care (all p<.001). Meaning of life and the spiritual well-being were significantly correlated before and after spiritual nursing care, but it was not highly correlated after than before the spiritual nursing care. Conclusion: The study verified spiritual nursing care the improvement of the meaning of life and spiritual well-being for the terminal cancer older adult patients.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.107-116
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• 2024

본 연구는 호스피스 완화의료 전문기관 간호사의 임종간호스트레스, 죽음인식, 사전의사결정 태도가 임종간호수행에 미치는 영향 정도를 규명하기 위한 서술적 조사 연구이다. 본 연구의 대상자는 보건복지부로부터 호스피스 완화의료 전문기관으로 지정된 의료기관에 근무하는 호스피스 간호사 200명이다. 본 연구의 자료수집은 서면 설문지와 인터넷 설문조사 두가지 방법을 사용하여 2021년 8월 9일부터 9월 30일까지 이루어졌다. 자료분석방법은 대상자의 임종간호스트레스, 죽음인식, 사전의사결정 태도, 임종간호수행 간의 관계를 분석하기 위해 Pearson's correlation coefficient를 사용하였고 대상자의 임종간호수행에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하기 위해 Hierarchical Regression을 사용하였다. 본 연구결과 임종간호수행과 죽음인식(r=.22, p=.002), 임종간호수행과 사전의사결정 태도(r=.20, p=.004)는 유의한 상관관계를 나타냈다. 그리고 독립변수를 추가한 MODEL2에서 연령, 사전의사결정 태도, 죽음인식이 유의한 임종간호수행 영향요인이었으며 이들의 설명력은 10.4%이었다(F=3.90, p<.001). 호스피스 간호사의 임종간호스행 능력을 향상시키기 위해서는 그 영향요인을 고려한 중재가 요구된다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2023

현재 우리나라 요양병원은 노인인구 증가와 함께 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 요양병원에 입원하는 환자는 주로 만성질환을 가진 노인들로서 장기요양을 목적으로 하기 때문에 요양병원에서 임종하는 경우가 많아 요양병원에서의 임종간호 중요성이 점점 커지고 있다. 이러한 특징에도 불구하고 요양병원 간호사를 대상으로 임종간호에 대한 연구로는 주로 양적연구들로서 임종간호 경험에 대해 심층적으로 파악하기에 제한이 있다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 현상학적 방법을 통해 요양병원 간호사의 임종환자 간호경험의 의미가 무엇인지 이해하고 그 현상의 의미를 심층적으로 기술하고 이해하고자 함이다. 본 연구의 대상자는 C 시에 위치한 요양병원에서 6개월 이상 근무하고 있는 간호사 7명을 선정하였다. 연구방법은 심층 인터뷰로 2021년 12월부터 2022년 3월까지 자료를 수집하였다. 인터뷰 자료는 Giorgi의 현상학적 방법으로 분석하였다. 연구 결과 '임종간호에 대한 간호사의 태도', '연명에 대한 양가 감정', '요양병원의 임종간호에 대한 현실', '삶과 죽음에 대한 성찰'으로 나타났다. 따라서 요양병원 간호사의 임종간호 태도를 변화시키고 대처능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 임종간호 보수교육 및 중재 교육프로그램이 개발되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 의학교육논단
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.150-155
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• 2018

End-of-life care competencies have been perceived as important and essential, so it has been suggested that end-of-life care be studied in undergraduate medical education. However, end-of-life care curriculum has mostly focused on acquisition of knowledge and skills rather than attitudes. Therefore, we aimed to explore whether education about death affects medical students' attitudes towards care for dying patients and perception of death anxiety, meaning in life, and self-esteem. A total of 15 first- or second-year medical students were surveyed with questionnaires before and after completing a 6-week death education course. Paired data analysis showed that participants' attitudes towards caring for terminally ill patients and their caregivers improved significantly (t=-2.84, p=0.013) with an effect size of 0.73. In contrast, no significant changes were found in death anxiety, meaning in life, or self-esteem. All participants agreed that formal teaching about death and dying must be encouraged in medical schools. Our results suggest that death education may positively influence attitudes towards end-of-life care. Although replication with larger samples is necessary, this preliminary finding may support the importance of developmentally appropriate end-of-life care education in medical schools.

• 중환자간호학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2017

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe what critical care nurses perceived about life-sustaining treatment at end of life. Methods: A qualitative content analysis method was utilized. The unit of analysis was interview text obtained from fifty critical care nurses of a general hospital. Results: Seven categories in two content areas were abstracted. In the negative perception area, the following five categories were abstracted: patients' suffering, dying with damaged dignity, patients' isolation from family members, regret about choosing life-sustaining treatment, and family members' burden. In the positive perception area, the following two categories were abstracted: willingness to sustain life and duty as family members. Conclusions: Nurses have better competencies pertaining to understanding patients' responses and suffering than any other health care professions do. Nurses should play an important role in advocating for patients and their family in the process of end-of-life care decision making.

• 중환자간호학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2021

Purpose : Based on Quint's theory and the relevant literature, this study constructed a structural equation model for explaining and predicting end-of-life care performance in clinical nurses. Methods : A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 265 nurses between September 1 and September 30, 2016. The data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 21 and AMOS ver. 21. Results : The goodness of fit of the modified model was found to be relatively satisfactory (χ2=114.82, Nomed χ2(χ2/df)=2.44, SRMR=.06, GFI=.94, AGFI=.89, CFI=.95, TLI=.91, RMSEA=.07). End-of-life care performance was affected by the attitudes toward nursing care of the dying, working unit, and death anxiety. The attitudes toward such care had the highest effect on end-of-life care performance. Conclusion : The results suggest that end-of-life care performance is directly and indirectly affected by attitudes toward nursing care of the dying, participation in end-of-life care education, working unit, death perception, and death anxiety. To improve clinical nurses' end-of-life care performance, effective programs to promote death anxiety and attitudes toward nursing care of the dying need to be developed. In addition, hospital nursing organizations should attempt to produce concrete measures for death anxiety and terminal care attitudes in clinical nurses.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.172-183
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the subjective experience of life-sustaining treatment care among nurses in intensive care units. Method: A phenomenology was used for the study. Data were collected from October to December, 2015 using open-ended questions during in-depth interviews. Participants were nurses working in intensive care units and were contacted through purposive techniques. Eight nurses participated in this study. Results: Four categories emerged from the analysis using Colaizzi's method: (a) difficulties due to life-sustaining treatment care, (b) dilemma of extension or cessation of life-sustaining treatment, (c) repressed feelings and emotional exhaustion, and (d) forming values for life-sustaining treatment from nursing experience. Conclusion: Provision of clearer guidelines on life-sustaining treatment which reflect a family-oriented culture is important for nurses in ICU and will promote nurses involvement in the decision-making process of life-sustaining treatment of patients.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.307-316
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the influence of family support and death preparation on the quality of life in home care hospice patients. Methods: The study recruited 117 patients in home care hospice in four general tertiary hospitals and three general hospitals in three cities. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires from September 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 and analyzed using the statistical package IBM SPSS software version 22.0. Results: The quality of life according to the participants' general characteristics of the subjects shows a statistically significant difference between patients who live with supporters and those who do not(Z=2.96, p=.003). A statistically significant correlation was found between predictors such as family support, death preparation, and quality of life. Family support and death preparation affect the quality of life in home care hospice patients and these variables could explain 33.7% of it. Conclusion: To improve the quality of life in home care hospice patients, we should develop an intervention to enhance family support and death preparation.