| Eun Hee Park | 2 Articles |
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The purpose of this study was to identify the level of terminal care performance of nurses in long-term care hospitals, and investigate how nursing professionalism, attitudes on advance directives and death anxiety affects their terminal care performance. METHODS Total of 294 nurses from long-term care hospitals completed the structured questionnaires including nursing professionalism scale, advance directives attitude survey, death anxiety scale and terminal care performance scale. Data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 24.0. RESULTS There were significantly correlation among terminal care performance of nurse, nursing professionalism, attitudes on advance directives, and death anxiety. The key factor that affected nurses terminal care performance was nursing professionalism(β=.26, p < .001), followed by attitudes on advance directive (β=.20, p < .001), participation of terminal care education (β=.15, p=.006), total work experience (β=.13, p=.015), and participation of Do-Not-Resuscitate education (β=.13, p=.018), which explained about 23.1% of the variance in nurses terminal care performance (F=17.05, p < .001). CONCLUSION The results of this research suggest that to enhance the nursing performance of nurses in long-term care hospital, it is necessary to develop an education program that can enhance a professionalism and the attitudes on advance directives, and reduce death anxiety experienced by nurses. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
The concept of caring as the core value of nursing has been widely explored in many researchers. However, a clear conceptualization of what caring in nursing does not yet exist. The purpose of this study is to examine the attributes of caring by content analysis of journaling and to provide basic information for developing the theory of caring and teaching the humanism centered education. The study design was descriptive survey design. Data was colleged 82 cases of journaling which came from 26 junior and 30 senior nursing students from Oct. 1995 to June 1996. The collected data were analyzed using the content analysis by Ko, and et als.(1989) and Polit & Hngler(1987). To improve the validity two researchers examined the significant statements extracted from original contents. The results are as follows: The emphasized contents clusters of caring were 12 categories-
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