P23-9 Construction of a model for palliative care education for visiting nurses involved with patients with intractable cancer

ABSTRACT

Background: Cancer patients have been living with some inconvenience and anxiety about recurrence for a longer period while continuing cancer treatment after the initial cancer treatment is completed. In the future, the recuperation period for cancer patients will become longer and more complex. Intractable cancers such as recurrent, metastatic, drug-resistant, and rare cancers are defined as those that do not respond to or are resistant to cancer treatment. In addition, More than 50% of patients with cancer answered “home” as their preferred place to die, and there is a growing need for home treatment that emphasizes their own way of life. Therefore, it is important to encourage the improvement of the quality of home health care nursing related to home treatment cancer patients. Methods: This study has been approved by the Ethical Review Committee of institution. Study 1 A questionnaire was developed from a review of national and international literature, and a pilot web-based questionnaire was administered to visiting nurses. Study 2 An educational program is being planned based on the results obtained in Study 1.Study sessions corresponding to those themes were planned and implemented from May to September 2021 via web-based delivery using ICT. Results: The learning needs for refractory cancer palliative care nursing were included 1. COVID-19 at the home care, 2. ACP and 3. Nutrition Care. Based on our understanding of the above learning needs, nurses participated in the ICT for the intractable cancer nursing study session. Conclusion: As for training opportunities for visiting nurses, home care nursing stations do not have sufficient support systems for learning. In recent years, the number of cancer patients who wish to receive treatment at home has been increasing. The study sessions will be continued in order to obtain outcomes that improve visiting nurses‘ ability to practice cancer nursing through interventions for intractable cancer.