Takae Bando, Kazuya Kondo, Misuzu Matsumoto, Shizuka Kuroshima, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Yoshie Imai, Aki Takahashi and Isako Ueta : Psychological Adjustment and Related Factors in Patients with Recurrence/Metastatic Lung Cancer after Curative Surgery, The Journal of Medical Investigation : JMI, Vol.70, No.1,2, 200-207, 2023.
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The purpose of study was to clarify the psychological adjustment and related factors in lung cancer patients with recurrence/metastasis after curative surgery. Forty-one with lung cancer who were informed of a recurrence/metastasis after curative surgery completed a questionnaire comprised of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (MAC), Psychological Adjustment scale for Cancer Survivors (PACS), and information pertaining to demographic variables. When healthcare providers intervene in patients with lung cancer that has recurred/metastasized after curative surgery, it is necessary to assess patients' psychological adjustment based on demographic information, such as age, sex, marital status, and employment status, and to provide effective support promptly. Factors associated with psychological adjustment with recurrent/metastatic lung cancer after curative surgery were 1) female, 2) having a job, 3) over 65 years of age, 4) having a spouse, and 5) advanced-stage cancer. There was no difference in psychological adjustment between treatment and the period from cancer incidence to recurrence/metastatic. J. Med. Invest. 70 : 200-207, February, 2023.
乳癌患者 / 遺伝性乳癌卵巣癌症候群患者 / リスク低減卵管卵巣摘出術 / breast cancer patients / hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome(HBOC) / risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO)
The purpose of this study was to characterize periods of hospital-to-home care transition for elderly cancer patients by extracting definitions of such periods and their characteristics as situations from the literature, and to discuss effective nursing support toward hospital-to-home care transition. Relevant research papers published within the period between 2010 and 2020 were searched for using Ichushi Web and PubMed. Descriptions related to periods of transition, characteristics of situations, and hindering/promoting factors were extracted without any changes and categorized based on descriptive content similarities. In these papers, a period of hospital-to-home care transition was described as 1 week to 1 year after discharge. As a situation, it was characterized as ``a time when the patient rebuilds his/her life'', and therefore, ``a time of instability''. Factors hindering and promoting hospital-to-home care transition were represented by6categories, which suggested the following commonalities between them : [ physical management],[patients'/families' intentions],[home care systems],[other family members' commitments to home care], [collaboration systems], and[nurses' home care experience].
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Elderly Cancer Patients / Hospital-to-home Care Transition / Literature Review
This study aimed at clarifying prospects that lung cancer patients undergoing treatment after recurrence and metastasis have. The study method is based on the qualitative descriptive study design. A semi-structured interview was performed for 13 lung cancer patients undergoing treatment after recurrence and metastasis. As a result, the following five categories were extracted[; Since it is recurrence and metastasis, the death is coming to me][, I am undergoing treatment so I'm alright now but I'll die someday][, Let a matter take its own course][, My life will be going as before]and[I will be living as long as I receive treatment]. Characteristics of the above are that all of the patients are ready to accept death and they had more than two prospects. They were characteristic of patients after recurrence and metastasis that symptoms that remind them of repeated treatment and death appear and there is uncertainty for their future. The above results have suggested the need to capture the state of each prospect while confirming the prospects of lung cancer patients under treatment after recurrence and metastasis.
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recurrence and metastasis / lung cancer patient / prospect
Aim:To clarify the effects of observing surgery during clinical adult nursing practicum on postoperative nursing from the perspective of students. Methods:Semi-structured interviews were conducted with10students in their third year at a nursing college. The obtained data were qualitatively and inductively analyzed. Results:When observing surgery for the patients they were caring for, the students were aware of[the importance of observing and assessment with the influence of surgery and anesthesia taken into account]. Subsequently, they performed[postoperative pain management based on findings from the observation of actual surgical settings], while providing various approaches, including[Approaches to the promotion of patients' awareness of the current situation in order to prevent postoperative confusion and to protect safety]. Through this process, they developed[a sense of responsibility for nursing care inspired by patients・families' coping behaviors]． Discussion:The experience of observing surgery during clinical training was suggested to help students develop practical insights for care to promote postoperative recovery and a sense of responsibility for nursing care inspired by patients・families' coping behaviors.
Michiyo Mizuno, Kaori Yagasaki, Yoshie Imai, Isako Ueda, Takae Bando, Aki Takahashi, Hiroko Komatsu, Chie Asanuma and Linda Sarna : Impact of a web-based educational program on Japanese nurses tobacco cessation practice and attitudes in oncology settings, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Vol.8, 2021.
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To evaluate the effects of a short web-based educational program on Japanese nurses' self-reported attitudes toward tobacco cessation and their use of interventions to help smokers to quit. Prospective, single-group design with a pre-educational survey, a short web-based educational program, and a follow-up survey at 3 months. Clinical nurses were asked to view two prerecorded webcasts about helping smokers quit. They completed two online surveys, one at baseline and one at a 3-month follow-up. Generalized linear models were used to determine changes in nurses' self-reported routine practice after the study intervention. A total of 1401 nurses responded to the baseline survey, 678 of whom completed the follow-up survey. Compared with baseline, nurses at follow-up were more likely to advise smokers to quit (odds ratio [OR] = 1.45, 95% confidence interval [CI: 1.15, 1.82]), assess patients' interest in quitting (OR = 1.46, 95% CI [1.01, 1.04]), and assist patients with smoking cessation (OR = 1.34, 95% CI [1.04, 1.72]). However, the proportion of nurses who consistently recommended resources for tobacco cessation did not significantly improve at follow-up. This study provides preliminary evidence that a web-based educational program can increase nurses' implementation of tobacco dependence interventions in cancer care practice. Sustaining these educational efforts could increase nurses' involvement in providing these interventions, encourage nurses to refer patients to cessation resources, and support nurses' attitudes towards their role in smoking cessation. Our short web-based educational program can increase nurses' use of tobacco-dependence interventions in cancer care practice. This role can be enhanced with additional information about existing cessation resources that nurses could use to refer patients for support post-discharge. Japanese nurses, when properly educated, are willing and significant contributors to promote tobacco use cessation for cancer patients. The contribution can be facilitated through nursing care protocol that integrate tobacco use cessation interventions within evidence-based cancer care approaches.
In this study, the authors clarified experience of nurses with the dilemma toward the wish for recovery of cancer patients who discontinued treatment. An interview survey was performed for 14 nurses who had ever care cancer patients who discontinued their treatment. Experience of nurses with the dilemma toward the wish for recovery of cancer patients who discontinued treatment consisted of the following categories ;[ I am not able to respond to the patient's wish though I want to],[There is difference how to spend the time remained between the patient and me],[I do not have a sufficient power to support the end of the patient's life],[I feel disconsolate being unable to realize the patient's wish for recover]and[I'm a nurse. I never run from my patients]. The nurses with dilemma had experience in facing nursing cares driven by the sense of responsibility as a nurse while holding pain in their heart. Ethical problems may be underlying in this experience, and the need of team work, not individual responses, has been suggested. Therefore, support to reveal experience of nurses in daily nursing care is needed.
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cancer patients who have stopped treatment / hope to recover / experience of a nurse with a dilemma
To clarify the practical approaches of nurses in cancer chemotherapy, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 nurses certified for cancer chemotherapy in Tokushima Prefecture. The interview data were classified into the following categories : [not neglecting any step, as failure is unacceptable], [accurately predicting the symptoms of chemotherapy, rather than simply waiting for patients to report them], [making efforts to fulfill patients' desire to live], [bearing a heavy responsibility for handling toxic drugs], and [playing a role in generalizing chemotherapy]. The results suggest that the practical approaches of nurses in cancer chemotherapy three features place importance on "achieving positive effects while minimizing risks", "not narrowing down the scope of life", and "reducing resistance to chemotherapy".
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Cancer Chemotherapy Nursing / practical approach / nurses certified for cancer chemotherapy
The purpose of this study was to analyze trends in nursing students' assessments of the 10 powers of self-care agency in Gerontological Nursing and to identify educational support for students. The subjects were the practice records of 66 third-year nursing students who completed Gerontological Nursing from September 2019 to February 2020. The results showed that they had a perspective of directing their attention to the patient's interest, will, motivation, and reasoning among 10 power items that all students were able to assess, and that they approached their care with a respectful attitude toward the patient's perceptions and intentions for self-care. In addition, it could be inferred that they understood self-care in terms of patients' behaviors and activities by appearance. Conversely, from the items that more than half of the students were unable to assess, it could be inferred that they were unable to assess how to apply self-care agency to the patient's prospect and lives in future.
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Nursing Students / Orem's Power Components / Gerontological Nursing Clinical Practice
To clarify stress coping in families caring for end-stage cancer patients with difficulty controlling pain at home, semi-structured interviews were conducted with family caregivers using home-visit nursing services, and the obtained data were qualitatively, inductively analyzed. Stress responses in these family caregivers were summarized into5categories, including :[ having no idea what to do with the patient suffering from pain]and[being unsure on how to consult with medical professionals about pain]. In addition,6categories, representing the characteristics of their stress coping, such as[discharging negative emotions through recreational activities and catharsis]and [managing pain based on experience], were created. Families caring for end-stage cancer patients with difficulty controlling pain at home experienced several types of stress, but it was suggested that they personally grew through the process by adopting various coping strategies.
This study aimed to identify difficulties of visiting nurses who provide assistance to home-based cancer patients requiring palliative care. In survey1, a questionnaire survey was conducted involving30visiting nurses working for visiting nursing stations(valid response rate :90%), and the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. In survey 2, a semi-structured interview based on an interview guide was conducted involving4visiting nurses working for visiting nursing stations, and the data were analyzed using a qualitative and inductive approach. The results of survey1showed that the visiting nurses were more likely to experience difficulties with the worsening of a patient's health status and at the initiation of home-based care. They also experienced difficulties with understanding medical conditions of patients and their families, supporting decision-making, and cooperating with visiting physicians. Their level of understanding about the explanation given by physicians and the sense of value of patients and families were factors that affected such difficulties, and so, in order to resolve them, the importance of cooperating to secure medical and nursing personnel and creating a setting where they can share their knowledge of patients' conditions and treatments was indicated. In survey 2, the following 6 categories were extracted as difficulties encountered by visiting nurses providing assistance to home-based cancer patients requiring palliative care :[dealing with the worsening of the disease], [predicting the end of life], [being unable to care for patients without cooperation],[being involved with patients by understanding their life before illness],[preparing a home care environment for a patient's end-of-life], and[limits of current work situations]. The findings suggest the need not only to provide palliative care knowledge for the prediction and understanding of illness, but also to establish a system that allows multiple medical providers to assess patients' conditions, in order to deal with their difficulties.
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Patients who need palliative care / difficulty of visiting nurses
The purpose of this study was to clarify how the students understand the older patients based on Orem's nursing theory in Geriatric Nursing Training. The participants were17nursing students in third grade. The interview was carried out using semi-structured interview with students for how they felt older patients. As a result, two categories were extracted ; [ they need limited care for deficient parts]and[they have toughness cultivated through their long life]. The students understood the older patients as having self-caring abilities and thought that limited care should be provided only for deficient parts of patients. Also, they understood older patients as having strength cultivated through their long life. It is necessary for teachers to assess the Self-care agency more severely for students to get hold of mature elements characteristic of older patients.
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older patients / 看護学生 (nursing students) / Geriatric Nursing Training
高西 裕子, 今井 芳枝, 板東 孝枝, 髙橋 亜希, 小川 佳宏 : The experiences of patients with lymphedema who underwent ICG fluorescence lymphangiography and lymphatic mapping, The 9th Asia Pacific Enterostomal Therapy Nurse Association Conference, 2021年7月.
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水野 道代, Yoshie Imai, 矢ヶ崎 香, 上田 伊佐子, Takae Bando, Aki Takahashi, 浅沼 智恵, 小松 浩子, L Sarna and S. Bialous : Approaches to Recruiting Japanese Nurses to Build the Skill for Helping Cancer Patients Quit Smoking, Mar. 2020.
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Michiyo Mizuno, Yoshie Imai, Kaori Yagasaki, Isako Ueta, Takae Bando, Aki Takahashi, Hiroko Komatsu, Chiemi Onishi, L. Sarna and S Bialous : Development of an Online Webcast to Build Tobacco Control Capacity of Nurses in Japanese Clinical Cancer Centers, Tobacco Induced Diseases, ムンバイ, Nov. 2019.
Aki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoshida, Takae Bando, Yoshie Imai, Takeshi Nishino, Seiya Inoue, Akira Tangoku and Kazuya Kondo : Quality of Life and Psycholugical Status ofPatients with Esophageal Cancer Who Underwent Minimal Invasive Surgery, 2nd Technological Competrncy as Caring inthe Health Sciences 2018, 111, Aug. 2008.