Health Personnel’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy Related to Providing Palliative Care in Persons with Chronic Diseases / 한국호스피스완화의료학회지

Purpose@#The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy related to palliative care among health care providers (doctors and nurses) in order to provide a basis to develop a training program for health care providers. @*Methods@#A correlational and descriptive study design was used. Participants were recruited from a university-affiliated hospital located in Daejeon and an e-nurse community. After IRB approval, data were collected from July 12, 2018, to September 30, 2018. A total of 169 responses were finally analyzed using version SPSS 24. The data were analyzed in terms of descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage or mean and standard deviation, as appropriate), the t-test, analysis of variance (with the Duncan post hoc test), and Pearson correlation coefficients. @*Results@#Knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy were significantly higher in those who had received palliative care training or had been exposed to awarenessraising initiatives. There were positive relationships among knowledge, attitudes, and selfefficacy, with small to moderate effect sizes. @*Conclusion@#Palliative care training for health care professionals is necessary to meet patients’ needs. Such programs should take into account not only knowledge about palliative care, but also ways to improve empathy and resolve ethical dilemmas. Interprofessional training would be an excellent option to share therapeutic goals and develop communication skills among multidisciplinary team members.

Health Personnel’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy Related to Providing Palliative Care in Persons with Chronic Diseases / 한국호스피스완화의료학회지

Purpose@#The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy related to palliative care among health care providers (doctors and nurses) in order to provide a basis to develop a training program for health care providers. @*Methods@#A correlational and descriptive study design was used. Participants were recruited from a university-affiliated hospital located in Daejeon and an e-nurse community. After IRB approval, data were collected from July 12, 2018, to September 30, 2018. A total of 169 responses were finally analyzed using version SPSS 24. The data were analyzed in terms of descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage or mean and standard deviation, as appropriate), the t-test, analysis of variance (with the Duncan post hoc test), and Pearson correlation coefficients. @*Results@#Knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy were significantly higher in those who had received palliative care training or had been exposed to awarenessraising initiatives. There were positive relationships among knowledge, attitudes, and selfefficacy, with small to moderate effect sizes. @*Conclusion@#Palliative care training for health care professionals is necessary to meet patients’ needs. Such programs should take into account not only knowledge about palliative care, but also ways to improve empathy and resolve ethical dilemmas. Interprofessional training would be an excellent option to share therapeutic goals and develop communication skills among multidisciplinary team members.

Child sexual abuse and pediatricians / 소아과

Child sexual abuse is not a rarely encountered problem. Child sexual abuse is a pediatric disease entity with lifelong impact. Child sexual abuse, different from sexual assault, is not always accompanied by violent force and usually repeated over a period of time. Child sexual abuse should be approached by multidisciplinary team experts. Every pediatrician should know the child protection network in his district and be competent in the child sexual abuse medical evaluation and treatment as a primary doctor. In order to accomplish that goal, the Korean Pediatric Society should change the pediatric residency training curriculum and foster child sexual abuse experts. Pediatricians have responsibilities to do their active role in response to children at risk.

Child sexual abuse and pediatricians / 소아과

Child sexual abuse is not a rarely encountered problem. Child sexual abuse is a pediatric disease entity with lifelong impact. Child sexual abuse, different from sexual assault, is not always accompanied by violent force and usually repeated over a period of time. Child sexual abuse should be approached by multidisciplinary team experts. Every pediatrician should know the child protection network in his district and be competent in the child sexual abuse medical evaluation and treatment as a primary doctor. In order to accomplish that goal, the Korean Pediatric Society should change the pediatric residency training curriculum and foster child sexual abuse experts. Pediatricians have responsibilities to do their active role in response to children at risk.

Comparison of Nursing Records of Open Heart Surgery Patients before and after Implementation of Electronic Nursing Record / 대한의료정보학회지

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to compare nursing records before and after the implementation of an electronic nursing records system. METHODS: Twenty patients' paper-based nursing records and 20 patients' electronic nursing records were analyzed according to the nursing process and compared in terms of quantity and quality. RESULTS: In terms of quantity, the average number of statements documented per patient per day has increased by 2.5 times, from 10.3 to 25.6 statements. The average number of redundancies of a unique statement also has increased by 67%, from 5.0 to 8.8. As for the content of nursing records, paper-based nursing records have more patient problem statements describing signs and symptoms, nursing observations, and patient status. Electronic nursing records have more nursing activity statements. In terms of quality, there were more nursing records following patterns of nursing process in electronic nursing records than paper-based nursing records. The electronic nursing records have a more detailed documentation compared to the paper-based nursing records. CONCLUSION: After the implementation of electronic nursing record system, quantity of nursing records and the pattern of nursing records following the nursing process have been increased and granularity of nursing records has been improved.