Developing a Quality Assessment Index of Cancer Chemotherapy Nursing for Certified Nurses.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593317
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Aichi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: KATAOKA Jun 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (70259307)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMAGUCHI Keiko 日本福祉大学, 看護学部, 教授 (80143254) ; HIROSE Eri 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (90269514) ; ONUMA Naomi 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 講師 (00295627) ; HOTTA Nobuko 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 助教 (10438856)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 化学療法 / がん看護 / 質指標 / 認定看護師

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to develop a quality assessment index of cancer chemotherapy nursing (QAICN) for certified nurses. A QAICN was developed based on a literature review. A QAICN contained 120 items and constructed six factors. The six factors were “provide support so that patients able to make a decision making for cancer therapy”, “risk management and care of chemotherapy adverse reaction”, “safety management for chemotherapy”, “provide support so that patients able to self-care for chemotherapy”, “provide psycho-social support so that patients able to adjust to their therapy and illness experience” , “effort to keep the expert knowledge in need of certified nurses”. The next step of this study is to investigate the validity of QAICN by a questionnaire survey among certified nurses of cancer chemotherapy.

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