Qualitative research on home-based hospice care experiences of nurses: a Meta-synthesis / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To systematically review the experience of nurses′ in providing home-based hospice care, so as to provide a basis for improving the quality of home-based hospice care and the nursing service system.Methods:Qualitative researches on nurses′ experience of providing home-based hospice care were retrieved from the Cochrane Library, PubMed,Web of Science, EBSCO, Medline, China National Knowledge Internet, China Biomedical Literature Database, Wanfang Database, VIP Database from inception to April 1, 2022. Adopting Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tool (2016) to evaluate the quality of included studies, the Meta-synthesis was used to explain and integrate the research results.Results:A total of 9 articles were included. This study extracted 23 clear results, 8 new categories, and 3 integrated results, including the significance of nurses′ acceptance of home-based hospice care; positive and negative emotions coexist when nurses provide home-based hospice care; challenges in implementing home-based hospice care.Conclusions:The development of home-based hospice care service is helpful to provide continuous care for the terminally ill patients and improve their quality of life, but at the same time, the ability of home-based hospice care of nurses should be further improved and the related policy guarantee should be perfected to promote the steady development of home-based hospice care in China.