The Use of the Guideline of Pain Management for Hospice Care in Taking Care of Advanced Cancer Patients With Pain

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Ping Su, 蘇小萍
• Other Authors: Chia-Chin Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01829081038215679087

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 護理學系 === 91 === Abstract Title of Thesis：The Use of the Guideline of Pain Management for Hospice Care in Taking Care of Advanced Cancer Patients with Pain Institution：Graduate Institution of Nursing, Taipei Medical University Author：Hsiao-Ping Su Thesis directed by：Chia-Chin Lin, Phd., Professor The guideline of Pain Management for Hospice Care was developed by the National Department of Health in December, 2000. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of the Guideline of Pain Management for Hospice Care in Taiwan, and to compare the satisfaction of the physcians and nurses who work at hospice units and non-hospice units. One hundred and thirty-nine participants were recruited, including 112 nurses and 27 physcians.The results indicated that there was a significant difference between people who work at hospice and non-hospic units that had known or read the guideline of pain management. Second, it was found that those who had received hospice training program reported significantly higher levels of satisfifaction for the guideline of pain management than the who had not received for hospice training program.Third, the physicians and nurses reported the mean score for satisfaction of the Guideline of Pain Management were 3.94 (SD=0.79). Finally, most of the physicians and nurses would like to modify the size of Guildline of Pain Management to a smaller size to in order to keep it stand by. This study provide important implicate as for the multidisciplinary team who take care for hospice patients for the government to understand how to best use of the Guildline of Pain Management in clinical in Taiwan, and offer important suggestions to further modify the guideline.