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KMID : 1004620090150010107
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Clinical Nursing Research
2009 Volume.15 No. 1 p.107 ~ p.122
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Analysis of Nursing Interventions Frequently Used with Cancer Patients
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Moon Kyung Hee
Ahn Mee Jung
Kim Phill-Ja
Park Jung Yeon
Kim Myung-Ae
Park Ihn-Sook
Bae Su Hyun
Lee So-Jung
Kwon In-Gak
Kim So-Sun
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify nursing interventions frequently used with cancer patients. Nursing records from 5 general hospitals for patients with stomach, liver, lung or colon cancer were analyzed.
Method: A descriptive study methodology was used and nursing records for 15 patients in each disease category at each hospital, who were admitted and discharged during June 2007 were analyzed.
Results: Five domains of NIC were found and the physiological(basic) domain was most frequent (31.52%). Twenty two classes of NIC were identified with risk management for safety being most frequent (22.49%). For the 119 nursing interventions identified, the most frequent was pain management with 7,827 (12.31%), followed by prevention of falls (11.76%), surveillance (6.79%) and wound care (5.12%). Nursing activities of pain management and prevention of falls were comparable to activities listed in literature on guidelines for evidence based and best practices in nursing care. Eight of the 17 nursing activities for pain management, and 9 of 14 for fall prevention were consistent with these guidelines.
Conclusion: In this study, nursing interventions were found to be focused on physical care, monitoring patients’ condition and education. We have to develop diverse nursing interventions and a convenient recording process.
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KEYWORD
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Cancer patients, Nursing intervention
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