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BACKGROUND: Improving palliative care for inpatients is urgently needed. Data from patient-reported experience measures (PREM) can assist in identifying areas for focused improvement. This study aimed to describe patient reported experience of care in inpatients with palliative care needs, to inform a baseline understanding of care experience and identify key areas for improvement. METHODS: Cross-sectional study design where inpatients with palliative care needs were invited to complete 'consideRATE,' a patient reported experience measure of care, over six months in 2022. Inpatients with palliative care needs receiving care on an oncology, general medicine/renal and general medicine/respiratory ward (n = 3) at an Australian metropolitan hospital were screened for eligibility. Carers could provide proxy responses where inpatients were unable to participate. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse quantitative ratings, whilst free text responses were analysed using integrated thematic analysis. RESULTS: One-hundred and twenty participants (108 patients and 12 carers) completed consideRATE. The questions with the highest number of 'very good' responses were attention to symptoms, attention to feelings and attention to what matters most; the questions with the lowest number of 'very good' responses was attention to patients' affairs, what to expect, and the environment of care. Almost half (n = 57, 48%) indicated that attention to patients' affairs 'did not apply' to their inpatient stay. Analysis of 532 free text responses across 8 questions highlighted the importance of feeling supported, feeling informed, feeling heard and navigating the clinical environment. CONCLUSION: Enabling inpatients with palliative care needs to provide feedback about their experience of care is one method of ensuring improvements matter to patients. Supporting clinical teams to understand and use these data to make tailored improvements is the next step in this multi-phase research.
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Pacientes Internados , Cuidados Paliativos , Humanos , Estudos Transversais , Cuidados Paliativos/métodos , Cuidados Paliativos/normas , Cuidados Paliativos/psicologia , Masculino , Feminino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Pacientes Internados/psicologia , Pacientes Internados/estatística & dados numéricos , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Adulto , Austrália , Inquéritos e Questionários , Satisfação do Paciente , Medidas de Resultados Relatados pelo PacienteRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Globally there are high numbers of patients with palliative care needs receiving care in hospitals. Patient reported experience measures (PREMs) provide useful data to guide improvement work. How to implement PREMs within palliative care populations is unclear. AIM: To explore the perspectives of inpatients with palliative care needs, their family members, and the clinical team regarding the use of a generic PREM as compared with a PREM designed for people with palliative care needs and related implementation factors. DESIGN: A qualitative study was undertaken using semi-structured interviews and focus groups and integrated thematic analysis. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Inpatients with palliative care needs, their family members, and clinical team members were recruited from three wards in an Australian metropolitan hospital. RESULTS: Twenty-seven interviews and three focus groups were conducted. Six themes emerged: (1) PREMs for people with palliative care needs ought to be tailored to the needs of this population; (2) PREMs should appraise whether the needs of families have been met in addition to those of patients; (3) PREMs for inpatients with palliative care needs ought to be easy to use, brief and incorporate space for free text alongside each question; (4) Implementation of PREMs for people with palliative care needs ought to consider who administers these, when and how often; (5) PREM data need to be specific enough to inform process change and/or care provision; (6) Patients and families require meaningful feedback to encourage PREM completion. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides practical guidance for PREM selection and implementation to inform improvements to care for inpatients with palliative care needs.
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Pacientes Internados , Cuidados Paliativos , Humanos , Austrália , Hospitais Urbanos , Avaliação de Resultados da Assistência ao PacienteRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: Understanding what matters most to patients and their caregivers is fundamental to delivering high-quality care. This systematic review aimed to characterize and appraise the evidence from discrete choice experiments eliciting preferences for palliative care. METHODS: A systematic literature search was undertaken for publications up until August 2022. Data were synthesized narratively. Thematic analysis was applied to categorize attributes into groups. Attribute development, frequency, and relative importance were analyzed. Subgroup analyses were conducted to compare outcomes between patient and proxy respondents. RESULTS: Seventeen studies spanning 11 countries were included; 59% of studies solely considered preferences for patients with cancer. A range of respondent groups were represented including patients (76%) and proxies (caregivers [35%], health providers [12%], and the public [18%]). A total of 117 individual attributes were extracted and thematically grouped into 8 broad categories and 21 subcategories. Clinical outcomes including quality of life, length of life, and pain control were the most frequently reported attributes, whereas attributes relating to psychosocial components were largely absent. Both patients and proxy respondents prioritized pain control over additional survival time. Nevertheless, there were differences between respondent cohorts in the emphasis on other attributes such as access to care, timely information, and low risk of adverse effects (prioritized by patients), as opposed to cost, quality, and delivery of care (prioritized by proxies). CONCLUSIONS: Our review underscores the vital role of pain control in palliative care; in addition, it shed light on the complexity and relative strength of preferences for various aspects of care from multiple perspectives, which is useful in developing personalized, patient-centered models of care for individuals nearing the end of life.
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Qualidade de Vida , Assistência Terminal , Humanos , Preferência do Paciente/psicologia , Cuidados Paliativos , Dor , Comportamento de EscolhaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Forty-five percent of the world's population lives in rural areas, yet their access to palliative care is quite limited. Identifying the care elements rural populations with palliative care needs require is critical to improving care outcomes. AIM: To identify the key care elements that optimise palliative care for people in rural communities. DESIGN AND DATA SOURCES: A systematic review of articles studying the impact of novel rural model of care interventions was undertaken in May 2022. This study is reported using the PRISMA Statement and was registered with Prospero (CRD42020154273). Three databases were searched, and the data analysed according to Popay's narrative synthesis, and elements classified using the WHO Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions (ICCC) Framework. RESULTS: Of the 9508 identified papers, 15 met the inclusion criteria, reporting on 14 studies involving 1820 rural patients. Care received spanned 12/18 of the WHO ICCC Framework elements, with wide variability in how these elements were operationalised. The five elements that signal improved outcomes were: (1) Promote continuity and coordination; (2) Prepared, informed and motivated health care teams; (3) Prepared, informed and motivated patients and families; (4) Organise and equip health care teams and (5) Promote consistent financing. CONCLUSIONS: A well-coordinated multidisciplinary team approach, led by clinicians with specialist palliative care expertise, integrated across local health care settings, using information systems and care planning, is critical to optimising rural palliative care patient outcomes. Rural patients and their families require timely input from specialist palliative care clinicians and information to address their needs.Prospero registration ID: CRD42020154273 https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=154273.
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Enfermagem de Cuidados Paliativos na Terminalidade da Vida , Cuidados Paliativos , Humanos , População Rural , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente , NarraçãoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The global need for focused improvements in palliative care within the acute hospital setting is well noted. A large volume of evidence exists detailing what hospitalised patients with palliative care needs and their families note as important for high quality care. Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) are one mechanism that hospitals could use to inform improvement work. To date there has not been a review of PREMs available for hospitalised patients with palliative care needs and/or their family, nor how they align with noted priorities for high quality care. AIM: To identify and describe PREMs designed for hospitalised patients with palliative care needs and their families; and their alignment with patient and family identified domains for high quality care. DESIGN: A systematic review. DATA SOURCES: A systematic search of CINAHL, Medline and PsycInfo was conducted up to September 23, 2022 and supplemented by handsearching article reference lists and internet searches. PREMs written in English and designed for patients with palliative care needs in acute hospitals were eligible for inclusion. Included PREMs were described by: summarising key characteristics; and mapping their items to domains noted to be important to hospitalised patients with palliative care needs and their families informed by outcomes from a published study completed in 2021. Evidence for psychometric properties were reviewed. RESULTS: Forty-four PREMs with 827 items were included. Items per PREM varied from 2 to 85 (median 25, IQR 13-42). Two-thirds (n = 534, 65%) of the items were designed for families and a third (n = 283, 34%) for hospitalised patients, and very few (n = 10, 1%) for both. Sixty-six percent of items measured person-centred care, 30% expert care and 4% environmental aspects of care. Available PREMs address between 1 and 11 of the 14 domains of importance for quality palliative care. PREMs had a median of 38% (IQR 25.4-56.3) of items >Grade 8 measured by the Flesch-Kincaid readability test, with Grade 8 or lower recommended to ensure health information is as accessible as possible across the population. CONCLUSIONS: Whilst 44 PREMs are available for hospitalised patients with palliative care needs or their families, a varied number of items are available for some domains of care provision that are important, compared to others. Few are suitable for people with lower levels of literacy or limited cognitive capacity due to illness.
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Enfermagem de Cuidados Paliativos na Terminalidade da Vida , Cuidados Paliativos , Humanos , Cuidados Paliativos/psicologia , Pacientes/psicologia , Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde , Medidas de Resultados Relatados pelo PacienteRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Genomics has growing relevance to palliative care, where testing largely benefits relatives. Integration of genomics into the care of patients with palliative care needs has not received the critical attention it requires, and health professionals report a lack of policy guidance to support them to overcome practice barriers. SUMMARY: To identify policy recommendations related to: (1) integrating genomics into the care of patients with palliative care needs and their families, and (2) care of the family unit, we performed a scoping review of palliative care and genomic policies. Two of 78 policies recommended integrating genomics into palliative care. Six palliative care policies mentioned genomics in background information but were without relevant recommendations. No genomics policies mentioned palliative care in the background information. Across all policies, guidance related to "Delivering Family-Centred Care" was the most frequent recommendation related to care of the family unit, (n=62/78, 79.5%). KEY MESSAGES: We identified a policy gap related to integrating genomics into palliative care. Without policy guidance, health services are less likely to commit funding towards supporting health professionals, reducing the personal and clinical benefits of genomics to patients and relatives. Framing genomic information as family-centred care enables policy makers to communicate the value of genomics to palliative care that will resonate with genomic and palliative care stakeholders. These findings increase awareness among policy makers of the benefits of genomic information to patients with palliative care needs and their families and call for incorporation of appropriate recommendations into palliative care and genomic policy.
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BACKGROUND: There is growing recognition of the importance of involving patients and families with lived experiences of illness in healthcare service quality improvement, research and implementation initiatives. Ensuring input from people with palliative care needs is important, but how to enable this is not well understood. AIM: To seek the perspectives of Australian patients with palliative care needs, and their family members, to elicit their views on how to best contribute to inpatient palliative care quality improvement initiatives. DESIGN: An exploratory qualitative study, using semi-structured interviews. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Eligible participants were adult patients with palliative care needs receiving care within a hospital setting, and their family members. Recruitment occurred through: five hospitals in New South Wales, Australia; and snowballing. RESULTS: Fifty participants took part (21 patients and 29 family members). Results confirmed four themes: (1) Mechanisms for providing feedback about care quality need to be supportive and individualised; (2) The clinician-patient/family power imbalance makes real time feedback challenging to provide; (3) Willingness to contribute varies according to diagnosis, timing and role and (4) Face to face feedback is preferred for health service improvement work. CONCLUSIONS: Enabling meaningful consumer input to quality improvement requires careful consideration due to the unique requirements of the palliative care population. Embedding tailored outcome and experience measures to inform real-time care provision coupled with focussed opportunities for input into service improvement may best foster improvements in inpatient palliative care, founded in what matters most for people requiring this care.
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Família , Cuidados Paliativos , Adulto , Austrália , Hospitais , Humanos , Cuidados Paliativos/métodos , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are questionnaires that ask patients about their experience of healthcare to inform service improvements. It is unclear how palliative care patients manage the cognitive demands of completing PREMs, or how this can best be supported. This study aimed to explore cognitive operations among people with palliative care needs when completing a PREM focused on the care domains known to be important to this patient population in order to inform future administration of questionnaires for this purpose. METHODS: A qualitative approach was taken, using cognitive interviews. Participants were people receiving specialist palliative care with stable disease who were not bedbound. Interviews used 'think aloud' and verbal probes to explore the cognitive operations of comprehension, recall, judgement and response to a 33-item PREM, drafted using a standard process employed by the New South Wales Bureau of Health Information. Analysis proceeded first within- and then cross-cases to explore patterns. RESULTS: Fifteen people participated, all of whom had cancer except one with motor neuron disease. Six discussed inpatient care, and nine community care. Participants encountered challenges with all four cognitive operations. Many participants were unfamiliar with end-of-life care concepts like declining treatment and advance care planning. Participants often struggled to remember, answered hypothetically, or digressed beyond the focal setting. Few participants used the mid-point on a 3-point scale. However, all participants could complete two open-ended items on care aspects they regarded as 'best' or 'most needs improving'. CONCLUSIONS: Palliative care patients find PREMs challenging to complete and require supports to improve the quality and interpretability of data. Pending further research, tentative suggestions are made for PREM design and administration for this patient population.
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Cuidados Paliativos na Terminalidade da Vida , Cuidados Paliativos , Cognição , Humanos , Cuidados Paliativos/psicologia , Medidas de Resultados Relatados pelo Paciente , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Better understanding of patient and family member experiences of delirium and related distress during critical care is required to inform the development of targeted nonpharmacologic interventions. OBJECTIVE: To examine and synthesize qualitative data on patient and family member delirium experiences and relieving factors in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). DESIGN: We conducted a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis. Eligible studies contained adult patient or family quotes about delirium during critical care, published in English in a peer-reviewed journal since 1980. Data sources included PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Cochrane and Clinicaltrials.gov. METHODS: Systematic searches yielded 3238 identified articles, of which 14 reporting 13 studies were included. Two reviewers independently extracted data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Qualitative meta-synthesis was performed through line-by-line coding of relevant quotes, organization of codes into descriptive themes, and development of analytical themes. Five patients/family members with experience of ICU delirium contributed to the thematic analysis. RESULTS: Qualitative meta-synthesis resulted in four major themes and two sub-themes. Key new patient and family-centric insights regarding delirium-related distress in the ICU included articulation of the distinct emotions experienced during and after delirium (for patients, predominantly fear, anger and shame); its 'whole-person' nature; and the value that patients and family members placed on clinicians' compassion, communication, and connectedness. CONCLUSIONS: Distinct difficult emotions and other forms of distress are experienced by patients and families during ICU delirium, during which patients and families highly value human kindness and empathy. Future studies should further explore and address the many facets of delirium-related distress during critical care using these insights and include patient-reported measures of the predominant difficult emotions.
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Delírio , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva , Adulto , Cuidados Críticos , Família , Humanos , Pacientes , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
Ensuring students develop person-centred practice for diverse groups of people across health care settings is an important outcome of undergraduate nursing education. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a learning innovation, an integrated virtual patient case study and complementary online resources for person-centred nursing practice. The virtual patient case study of an Australian Aboriginal woman diagnosed with breast cancer was integrated within four core subjects of a Bachelor of Nursing program, for a total of 600 second-year students. The evaluation of this learning strategy was encouraging. Students reported that the online learning activities were engaging, particularly due to the level of realism, their understanding of Aboriginal Peoples' healthcare needs increased, and they developed therapeutic communication skills, applicable in a variety of healthcare contexts. Staff concerns about student wellbeing when learning sensitive content online were unfounded. When carefully planned, a virtual patient case study and online learning resources can support students to enhance their person-centred nursing practice. Further evaluation, including student outcomes through assessment, is an important next step.
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Educação a Distância , Bacharelado em Enfermagem , Estudantes de Enfermagem , Austrália , Feminino , Humanos , AprendizagemRESUMO
Background: Internationally, the epidemiology of dying is changing with people dying at an older age from an expected death and with complex health care needs. An increasing proportion of people require hospital care with the need to strengthen the quality of this care well-articulated. Evidence about what enables optimal inpatient palliative care is available. Articulating how to enable this within clinical practice is required. Objective: To investigate the domains of care that are most important to inpatients with palliative care needs and their families, to generate key practice points to inform optimal clinical care provision. Design: A mid-point meta-inference of the Opal Project's data. The three phase Opal Project utilised a fully mixed sequential dominant design (Quan â QUAL). Phase 1 focused on 'scoping the problem' through a systematic review and meta-synthesis of important aspects of care for inpatients with palliative care needs and their families (studies 1a and 1b); Phase 2 focused on 'understanding importance' through a qualitative interview study (study 2); and a mid-point meta-inference of data obtained across Studies 1a, 1b and 2. Phase 3 included a global environmental scan (Study 3) and co-design workshop (Study 4) focused on understanding how to drive reform for Australian inpatient palliative care, based on outcomes from the mid-point meta-inference; and an end-point meta-inference to generate final recommendations. Methods: Mid-point meta-inference of data obtained across Phases 1 and 2 involving: 1) verifying synthesis of data with palliative care consumers and clinical leaders; and 2) populating joint display tables to inform analysis and generate practice points. Results: Three categories and 14 domains informing optimal inpatient palliative care were identified: 1) Person-centred care including respectful and compassionate care; effective communication and shared decision making; effective teamwork; enabling family involvement; and maintaining role, meaning and identity; 2) Expert care including excellence in physical care; impeccable assessment and care planning; effective symptom management; technical competence; patient safety; and supported access to senior clinicians; and 3) Optimal environment for care including patient and family focused structural factors; and cleanliness to support infection control. Data integration generated 68 practice points informing care provision. Conclusions: Through a synthesis of patient and family perspectives about what is important for optimal inpatient palliative care, this study confirmed three categories of care, 14 domains of importance and 68 practice points. Importantly, these practice points guide clinical practice to enable each domain of care in practice. Tweetable abstract: We know what patients with palliative care needs, and their families need for good care when they are in hospital. It is time to deliver care in line with these needs.
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OBJECTIVE: To identify actions required to strengthen the delivery of person and family centred hospital-based palliative care so that it addressed the domains of care identified as important for inpatients with palliative care needs and their families. METHODS: A codesign study involving a workshop with palliative care and acute hospital policy, consumer and clinical representatives in Australia. A modified nominal group process generated a series of actions, which were thematically analysed and refined, before being circulated to participants to gain consensus. RESULTS: More than half (n=30, 58%) of the invited representatives (n=52) participated in the codesign process. Nine actions were identified as required to strengthen inpatient palliative care provision being: (a) evidence-informed practice and national benchmarking; (b) funding reforms; (c) securing executive level support; (d) mandatory clinical and ancillary education; (e) fostering greater community awareness; (f) policy reviews of care of the dying; (g) better integration of advance care planning; (h) strengthen nursing leadership; and (i) develop communities of practice for improving palliative care. CONCLUSIONS: Changes to policy, practice, education and further research are required to optimise palliative care within hospital settings, in accordance with the domains inpatients with palliative care needs and their families consider to be important. Achieving these changes will require a whole of sector approach and significant national and jurisdictional leadership.
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BACKGROUND: The majority of expected deaths in high income countries occur in hospital where optimal palliative care cannot be assured. In addition, a large number of patients with palliative care needs receive inpatient care in their last year of life. International research has identified domains of inpatient care that patients and carers perceive to be important, but concrete examples of how these might be operationalised are scarce, and few studies conducted in the southern hemisphere. AIM: To seek the perspectives of Australian patients living with palliative care needs about their recent hospitalisation experiences to determine the relevance of domains noted internationally to be important for optimal inpatient palliative care and how these can be operationalised. DESIGN: An exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Participants were recruited through five hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. RESULTS: Twenty-one participants took part. Results confirmed and added depth of understanding to domains previously identified as important for optimal hospital palliative care, including: Effective communication and shared decision making; Expert care; Adequate environment for care; Family involvement in care provision; Financial affairs; Maintenance of sense of self/identity; Minimising burden; Respectful and compassionate care; Trust and confidence in clinicians and Maintenance of patient safety. Two additional domains were noted to be important: Nutritional needs; and Access to medical and nursing specialists. CONCLUSIONS: Taking a person-centred focus has provided a deeper understanding of how to strengthen inpatient palliative care practices. Future work is needed to translate the body of evidence on patient priorities into policy reforms and practice points.
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Pacientes Internados , Cuidados Paliativos , Austrália , Hospitais , Humanos , New South Wales , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
BACKGROUND:: Carers of patients with palliative care needs require careful assessment and support to undertake their role effectively. The carer component of palliative care is embedded in complex situations that necessarily focus on the patient. AIMS:: To explore experiences of specialist palliative care nurses in identifying, assessing and planning care to support those looking after patients with palliative care needs. RESULTS:: Findings identified gaps in identifying carers and their role, and in assessing carers' needs. CONCLUSIONS:: This study confirmed the complexity in assessing carers' needs within the palliative care context, that practice gaps exist and positive outcomes result when routine processes were adopted. Future research should explore how to systematically make improvements in supporting carers in all palliative care contexts, including specialist and non-specialist settings.
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Cuidadores/psicologia , Assistência Domiciliar/psicologia , Enfermagem de Cuidados Paliativos na Terminalidade da Vida , Avaliação das Necessidades , Cuidados Paliativos/psicologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Austrália , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The importance of measuring the quality of end-of-life care provision is undisputed, but determining how best to achieve this is yet to be confirmed. This study sought to identify and describe national end-of-life care quality indicators and supporting policies used by countries leading in their end-of-life care provision. METHODS: A systematic environmental scan that included a web search to identify relevant national policies and indicators; hand searching for additional materials; information from experts listed for the top 10 (n=15) countries ranked in the 'quality of care' category of the 2015 Quality of Death Index study; and snowballing from Index experts. FINDINGS: Ten countries (66%) have national policy support for end-of-life care measurement, five have national indicator sets, with two indicator sets suitable for all service providers. No countries mandate indicator use, and there is limited evidence of consumer engagement in development of indicators. Two thirds of the 128 identified indicators are outcomes measures (62%), and 38% are process measures. Most indicators pertain to symptom management (38%), social care (32%) or care delivery (27%). INTERPRETATIONS: Measurement of end-of-life care quality varies globally and rarely covers all care domains or service providers. There is a need to reduce duplication of indicator development, involve consumers, consider all care providers and ensure measurable and relevant indicators to improve end-of-life care experiences for patients and families.
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Cuidados Paliativos/normas , Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde , Assistência Terminal/normas , Adulto , Atenção à Saúde , Política de Saúde , HumanosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Despite most expected deaths occurring in hospital, optimal end-of-life care is not available for all in this setting. AIM: To gain a richer and deeper understanding of elements of end-of-life care that consumers consider most important within the hospital setting. DESIGN: A meta-synthesis. DATA SOURCES: A systematic search of Academic Search Complete, AMED, CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, PubMed, Google, Google Scholar and CareSearch for qualitative studies published between 1990 and April 2015 reporting statements by consumers regarding important elements of end-of-life hospital care. Study quality was appraised by two independent researchers using an established checklist. A three-stage synthesis approach focusing on consumer quotes, rather than primary author themes, was adopted for this review. RESULTS: Of 1922 articles, 16 met the inclusion criteria providing patient and family data for analysis. Synthesis yielded 7 patient and 10 family themes including 6 common themes: (1) expert care, (2) effective communication and shared decision-making, (3) respectful and compassionate care, (4) adequate environment for care, (5) family involvement and (6) financial affairs. Maintenance of sense of self was the additional patient theme, while the four additional family themes were as follows: (1) maintenance of patient safety, (2) preparation for death, (3) care extending to the family after patient death and (4) enabling patient choice at the end of life. CONCLUSION: Consumer narratives help to provide a clearer direction as to what is important for hospital end-of-life care. Systems are needed to enable optimal end-of-life care, in accordance with consumer priorities, and embedded into routine hospital care.
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Empatia , Família/psicologia , Pessoal de Saúde/psicologia , Cuidados Paliativos/psicologia , Relações Profissional-Família , Relações Profissional-Paciente , Assistência Terminal/psicologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Atitude Frente a Morte , Tomada de Decisões , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Simulation allows students to practice key psychomotor skills and gain technical proficiency, fostering the development of clinical reasoning and student confidence in a low risk environment. Manikins are a valuable learning tool; yet there is a distinct lack of empirical research investigating how to enhance engagement between nursing students and manikins. OBJECTIVE: To describe student perspectives of a layered, technology enhanced approach to improve the simulation learning experience. EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK: Tanner's Model of Clinical Judgment underpins the entire curriculum. This study additionally drew on the principles of narrative pedagogy. INTERVENTION: Across ten teaching weeks, five separate case studies were introduced to students through short vignettes. Students viewed the vignettes prior to their laboratory class. In the labs, manikins were dressed in the props used in the vignettes. SETTING: The innovation was trialed in a second year core subject of a Bachelor of Nursing program in a large urban university in the autumn semester of 2014. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Following ethics approval, students were emailed a participant information sheet. A focus group of nine students was held. The discussion was digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim prior to being subject to thematic analysis. Students' comments (143) about the vignettes in their standard subject specific student feedback surveys were also considered as data. RESULTS: Four themes were identified: Getting past the plastic; knowing what to say; connecting and caring; and, embracing diversity. The feedback indicated that these measures increased students ability to suspend disbelief, feel connected to, and approach the manikins in a more understanding and empathetic fashion. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to achieving increased engagement with manikins, other advantages such as students reflecting on their own values and pre-conceived notions of people from diverse backgrounds were realized.
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Empatia , Manequins , Treinamento por Simulação , Estudantes de Enfermagem/psicologia , Competência Clínica , Bacharelado em Enfermagem , Tecnologia Educacional , Humanos , Aprendizagem Baseada em ProblemasRESUMO
The well-documented health disparities between the Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous population mandates a comprehensive response from health professionals. This article outlines the approach taken by one faculty of health in a large urban Australian university to enhance cultural competence in students from a variety of fields. Here we outline a collaborative and deeply respectful process of Indigenous and non-Indigenous university staff collectively developing a model that has framed the embedding of a common faculty Indigenous graduate attribute across the curriculum. Through collaborative committee processes, the development of the principles of "Respect; Engagement and sharing; Moving forward" (REM) has provided both a framework and way of "being and doing" our work. By drawing together the recurring principles and qualities that characterize Indigenous cultural competence the result will be students and staff learning and bringing into their lives and practice, important Indigenous cultural understanding.
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Competência Cultural/educação , Currículo/tendências , Havaiano Nativo ou Outro Ilhéu do Pacífico/etnologia , Austrália/etnologia , Serviços de Saúde do Indígena , Humanos , Estudantes , Universidades/organização & administração , Recursos HumanosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The majority of expected deaths occur in hospitals where optimal end-of-life care is not yet fully realised, as evidenced by recent reviews outlining experience of care. Better understanding what patients and their families consider to be the most important elements of inpatient end-of-life care is crucial to addressing this gap. AIM AND DESIGN: This systematic review aimed to ascertain the five most important elements of inpatient end-of-life care as identified by patients with palliative care needs and their families. DATA SOURCES: Nine electronic databases from 1990 to 2014 were searched along with key internet search engines and handsearching of included article reference lists. Quality of included studies was appraised by two researchers. RESULTS: Of 1859 articles, 8 met the inclusion criteria generating data from 1141 patients and 3117 families. Synthesis of the top five elements identified four common end-of-life care domains considered important to both patients and their families, namely, (1) effective communication and shared decision making, (2) expert care, (3) respectful and compassionate care and (4) trust and confidence in clinicians. The final domains differed with financial affairs being important to families, while an adequate environment for care and minimising burden both being important to patients. CONCLUSION: This review adds to what has been known for over two decades in relation to patient and family priorities for end-of-life care within the hospital setting. The challenge for health care services is to act on this evidence, reconfigure care systems accordingly and ensure universal access to optimal end-of-life care within hospitals.