終末期における看護師の患者および家族とのコミュニケーションに関する文献検討

terminal stage

看護総合科学研究会誌

We reviewed the literature published in the past 10 years to examine issues of nursing research which lead to practices and education related to the skill of comrnunication for being actively involved in taking care for terminally ill patients and families. As a consequence, we confirmed the following: 1. We reviewed 34 original papers on nurses' communication during terminal care. The research contents consisted of the needs for communication of the patients and their families, nurses' awareness of communication, the effects of communication, issues and difficulties in comrnunication, and the improvement of communication. 2. The issues in this field of research were to conduct more focused studies through theoretical approach, to accumulate studies of what nurses feel about communication during terminal care in terms of skills, time, and emotions, and to develop educational methods based on the knowledge obtained through such studies.