ArticleBMC palliative care2019
The exploration of the knowledge, attitudes and practice behaviors of advanced care planning and its related predictors among Taiwanese nurses.
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- Reliability and Validation Study of Advance Care Planning Practice Scale among Health and Social Care Professionals.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring knowledge, attitude, and intention towards advance care planning, advance directive, and the patient self-determination act among hemodialysis patients.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
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- The Role Complexities in Advance Care Planning for End-of-Life Care-Nursing Students' Perception of the Nursing Profession.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effects of Dispositional Resilience and Self-Efficacy on Practice in Advanced Care Planning of Terminally Ill Patients among Taiwanese Nurses: A Study Using Path Modeling.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Emergency Healthcare Providers' Knowledge about and Attitudes toward Advance Directives: A Cross-Sectional Study between Nurses and Emergency Medical Technicians at an Emergency Department.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Association between training experience and readiness for advance care planning among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2020Article
- Exploring Behavioral Readiness and Program Strategies to Engage Older Community Residents in Advance Care Planning: A Pilot Mixed-Method Study in Taiwan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Does the Experience of Caring for a Severely Disabled Relative Impact Advance Care Planning? A Qualitative Study of Caregivers of Disabled Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite the documented and well known patient benefits of ACP, the completion of ACP, only a minority of patients, during the advanced or EOL stage of their illnesses, receive such care. The misconceptions about ACP for healthcare providers, such as nurses, might become potential barriers to the effective implication of ACP. Also, from the transcultural perspective, it is evident essential to explore Taiwanese nurses' attitudes, knowledge, and actions of ACP. The purposes of this study were to explore the implication of ACP or hospice care for nurses caring for non-cancer chronic illness patients at a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan; and, to identify predictors of those nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and actions toward ACP.
methodsThis cross-sectional study with a purposive sample of 218 nurses was conducted at a teaching hospital in southern Taiwan. Structured questionnaires were employed and data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVAs, Pearson's correlation and multiple regressions.
results16.1% of Taiwanese physicians actively initiated ACP issues or conversations with patients or their family members. Nurses' attitudes toward ACP were fairly positive but their knowledge about ACP was insufficient and actions of ACP were not positively executed. The predictors of ACP-Knowledge (ACP-K) included position title, education hours and lacking of educational training. The predictors of ACP-Attitude (ACP-A) included ACP-K and "fear of patient or family member not accepting", whereas ACP-A, position title, "patients do not feel necessary" and "not sure physician's concern" were the predictors of ACP-Act.
conclusionContinuous education and training for nurses regarding ACP needs to be improved by taking those predictors found in this current study into account, and more studies on the nurse's role in ACP also should be further examined.
trial registrationKAFGH 106-012. Date of registration 1 May 2017.
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