Category* | Significance of DC* | No.† | Items of Terminal Care and Death Conference 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. | |
Team sharing and collaboration | D6 | Death Conference helps me improve my teamwork. | |
Future direction of nursing | Share the purpose and direction of care | D2 | I share the purpose and direction of care. |
Clarification and resolution of nursing problems | D3 | I clarify nursing problems and get solutions. | |
Proposal to connect the solution to the next | D5 | I have a proposal to connect the solutions obtained for the next time. | |
Sharing of values | D7 | I share values with people who have the same thoughts. | |
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 patient’s remaining life | T7 T8 | I have stress on 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 seems to have difficulty getting 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. |
Learning patient care at the end of life | D1 | I feel death conference is an opportunity to learn about end-of-life patient care. | |
Understanding the will of patients and their families and reviewing care | D4 | I understand patients and their family’s intentions and reflect on their care. | |
Feeling 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. |