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Regional cooperation in palliative medicine involves multidisciplinary team care. It is very important for cancer patients to choose an appropriate place of stay during their end-of-life period. As the Nagoya Memorial Hospital does not have a palliative care ward, collaborating with other facilities offering palliative care and home care becomes pivotal. Therefore the Higashi-Nagoya home care social gathering was organized to improve communication and cooperation among regional health care professionals. Through discussions during this social gathering, the communication tools for cooperation in palliative care were outlined in November, 2015. We reviewed the outcome of 35 patients referred from our hospital using the communication tools for cooperation in palliative care: 25 patients were referred to chronic care hospitals including palliative care facilities, and 10 patients received palliative care at home; 23 died in the palliative care ward, 6 died at home, and 4 died at our hospital. A questionnaire survey conducted among the community health care professionals revealed that the introduction of this tool would be useful in providing accurate information on the prognosis of patients, level of understanding between the patients and their family, and patients’ views on life and death. Using the communication tool for communication would contribute to realizing seamless palliative care in the region surrounding our hospital, which would in turn lead to local team work and shared responsibilities to provide optimal palliative care.
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The language communication barrier of conscious mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit (ICU) has brought physiological and psychological discomfort to patients and using communication tools can improve efficiency of communication and patients′ satisfaction, it is also a key factor affecting nursing quality and patients′ safety. This article reviewed the application progress of communication tools for conscious patients with mechanical ventilation in ICU, and analyzed the effects and barriers about different types of communication tools, aimed to provide reference for better communication between nurses and patients in ICU.
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Objective To explore the modern communication tools urged by effect of patients with cor pulmonale discharge rehabilitation program. Methods A retrospective analysis was carried out from February 2014 to October 2016 in 46 cases of patients who suffered heart disease from lung disorders, they were given implementation of rehabilitation nursing through modern communication tools after discharge by the nursing staff. Another 46 cases of cor pulmonale patients were selected as the control group from January 2012 to January 2014, who were given routine rehabilitation treatment after discharge. The treatment effect, lung function and satisfaction degree were compared between the two groups after rehabilitation. SF-36 scale was adopted to assess the patients quality of life. Results The total efficiency was 97.83%(45/46) in the observation group, higher than that of the control group , 86.96%(40/46), the difference was statistically significant (χ2=3.8655,P<0.05). The indexes of pulmonary function of tidal volume, vital capacity, vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second of the observation group was (837.47±211.35), (3689.56 ± 174.63), (3788.43 ± 735.34), (1761.24 ± 510.35) ml, the control group were (678.34 ± 184.56), (3089.35 ± 215.35), (2916.36 ± 457.35), (1394.24 ± 394.34) ml, there were significant differences between two groups (t=3.8464-14.6825, P<0.01). The SF-36 scale physiological function, physiological function, mental health, emotional function, body pain, vitality, social function, general health scores of the control group were 77.46 ± 3.46, 74.32 ± 4.25, 72.13 ± 3.46, 77.46 ± 3.67, 75.78 ± 2.74, 79.53 ± 2.15, 80.46 ± 3.15, 78.94 ± 3.47, while they were 87.43 ± 5.23, 88.43 ± 3.47, 85.36 ± 2.36, 89.65 ± 5.36, 88.53 ± 3.48, 90.43 ± 4.36, 90.43 ± 2.35, 89.64 ± 3.27 in the observation group, there was significant difference between two groups (t=10.7831-21.4244, P<0.01). The satisfaction rate of the observation group was 97.83%(45/46), which was significantly higher than that of the control group 82.61% (38/46), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2=6.0348, P<0.05). Conclusions Rehabilitation treatment by the nursing staff through modern communication tools has a very good effect on pulmonary heart disease patients. It can help the pulmonary function of patients recover well, improve the quality of life and satisfaction degree significantly , which should be popularized in clinic.