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.