Development of End-of-Life Care Curriculum in Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463395
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI Mia 千葉大学, 医学部附属病院, 特任准教授 (00327660)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: EOL / カリキュラム / 教育 / 終末期

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated actual condition of EOL(End Of Life) education for nursing students in Japan and evaluated attitudes of nursing students toward EOL care. Considering those results, we developed contents of Japanese EOL care curriculums based on opinions of expert panel. As a result, in a curriculum of EOL care (30hours), we suggest that we need to provide nursing students with a syllabus of the contents in which includes 1. Concept and cultural consideration of the final stages of life-limiting illness, and Actual conditions and problems to be solved on the terminal stage, 2. Nursing care of patients in the terminal stage of an illness, 3.Pain control, 4. Mechanism of symptoms and symptom management, 5. Characteristics of the terminal stage of an illness based on life cycle, 6.Care of the last phase in the course of a progressive disease, 7. Family care.

Free Research Field

医療管理学