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KMID : 0948220160200010001
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Keimyung Journal of Nursing Science
2016 Volume.20 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.12
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Nurses’ death perception and terminal care performance in long-term care hospital
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Joung Bo-Ri
Park Hee-Ok
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate nurses’ death perception and terminal care performance in a long-term care hospital and to provide the meaningful data to improve the terminal care performance.
Methods: A total of 128 nurses working at 6 long-term care hospitals had participated in this study. The part of Inumiya’s instrument was used to measure the level of nurses’ death perception and Park’s instrument was used to the level of terminal care performance.
Results: The level of nurses’ negative meaning to death in long-term care hospitals was high and the level of terminal care performance was also high. Christian nurses showed the higher level of terminal care performance than atheist (t=3.34, p=.022) and nurses who experienced friends’ death showed the higher level of terminal care performance than parents or spouse’ death (F=4.42, p=.021). There was no significant correlation between the death perception and terminal care performance among nurses.
Conclusion: Based on the findings, a education program is needed to increase nurses’ positive perception to death and to improve the spiritual area of terminal care performance in long-term care hospitals.
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