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By reviewing the necessity, current status of cognitive attitudes, influencing factors, and improvement strategies of inpatients’ living wills, this paper proposed to strengthen the publicity and promotion of living wills to advance the development of death with dignity, improve relevant influencing factors, and provide feasible solutions for living wills, and actively develop tools to assess the cognition and attitude of living wills, with a view to providing reference for further promoting the application of living wills in inpatients and improving related research.
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A total of 1140 medical workers from 8 public hospitals of secondary and tertiary levels in Anhui were surveyed with questionnaire. Their knowledge of the reform, acknowledgement of key points of the reform, desire of participating in the reform and other factors that may influence the reform were investigated as categorized by their hospital, position, title and age. This study comes up with such recommendations as reinforcing communications on public hospital reform, reforming the compensation mechanism to clarify government responsibilities, probing into a better model for multi-institution practice of certified physicians, and encouraging private capital to participate in medical service while ensuring its non-profit nature, and improving the performance appraisal mechanism to ensure incentives of medical workers. These recommendations aim to enable the health administrators in their decision making.
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Objective To investigate the attitude of clinical nurses to the practice of holistic nursing and provide basis for establishing harmonious relationships between patients and nurses.Methods primary nurses were randomly selected and underwent investigations on quality check of nursing work quarterly by serf-designed inventory.Results 24 nurses considered it necessary to carry out holistic nursing but 70 of them were reluctant to undertake it.They thought it boring because of the high requirement of holistic nursing and much literal document in practice.Conclusion Nursing services calls out seeking truth and dealing with concrete matters at present.The holistic nursing is not equipped with professional title since serious shortage of nursing staff.The emaphasis should be focused on the health education according to different situations in hospitals.Besides we should practice holistic nursing step by step instead of by the modality.
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PURPOSE: The purpose of study was to identify the death orientation and cognition, attitude and nursing needs in hospice care according to training of volunteers. METHOD: Data were collected using a structured questionnaire which included characteristics, death orientation and cognition, attitude and nursing needs in hospice care. Data collection was done between June 1st and 20th, 2003. The participants in the study were the 86 trained hospice volunteers and 76 non-trained hospice volunteers. The data were analyzed using the SPSS/PC+ program. RESULT: The results are as follows: There was a significant difference in the average for the death orientation scores between non-trained hospice volunteers and trained hospice volunteers. There was a significant difference for the cognition of hospice and attitude, with higher responses being given by the hospice trained group. For the domains of nursing needs in hospice care, the highest response was to emotional needs. CONCLUSION: This study showed that training in hospice care was effective in changing the death orientation, cognition, attitude and nursing needs in hospice care.