Category* | Significance of DC* | No.† | Items of Terminal Care Nursing Self-Assessment Sheet |
Reflection | Review of nursing care provided by self-reflection | T1 | I have been able to look back on the nursing I performed. |
Cooperation | Collaboration with other professions | T2 | I am strengthening cooperation with other professions about patient care. |
Bond with patient and family | T13 | I feel a renewed bond with my patients and their family. | |
Response to patients | Response to unrelieved mental and physical pain in a patient | T5 | I have stress resulting from the patient’s inability to relieve mental or physical pain. |
Involvement with patients who have a gap in perceptions of the condition | T6 | I have stress associated with patients who have a different perception of their conditions. | |
The act of responding to a patient’s emotional expression and questions about the patient’s remaining life | T7 T8 | I have stress from patients’ emotional expression. I am stressed out from responding to questions from patients about life expectancy. | |
Response to patients’ family | Respect for family-to-patient wishes | T3 | I respect the wishes of patients’ family members toward patients. |
Dealing with family members of patients who seem to have difficulty involved | T9 | I am stressed out by the family of patients who are considered difficult to care for. | |
Anxiety and concern about the family’s treatment of patients | T12 | I am anxious and worried about the treatment of patients by their families. | |
Specific measures for nursing | Procedures for postmortem treatment and technique concerns | T10 | I have misgivings about procedures and skills for postmortem treatment. |
Feelings of the nurse | Thoughts of nurses who support the decision-making of terminal cancer patients | T4 | I support the decision-making of dying patients and their families. |
Awareness of the emotional reaction to a dying patient | T11 | I have emotional reactions toward dying patients. | |
Satisfaction with satisfying patients’ wishes | T14 | I have a sense of satisfaction in fulfilling the wishes of the patients, such as the patients spending time with their families. |