Hu li za zhi The journal of nursing
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The purpose of this project was to improve the comprehensiveness of nursing instructions given to patients on managing pain following total knee replacement surgery. The project began on 3 January 2007 and concluded on 30 June of the same year. ⋯ Nursing instruction performance also rose from 28.6% to 95.0% and the correctness of nurse knowledge with regard to postoperative pain management rose from an initial 62.1% to 93.1%. In conclusion, this project to improve the appropriateness and comprehensiveness of nurse instructions to patients with the objective of managing pain following total knee replacement surgery effectively achieved significantly positive results.
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The aim of hospice palliative education care is to train nurses in hospice philosophy, terminal care skills, nursing care competencies, and professional reliability. Student nurses, staff nurses, and advanced practice nurses must be taught through a proper sequence, from novice to expert. Working together with patients and their families, nurses can educate and care for the physical, social and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients. ⋯ The current overdependence on traditional nursing education models, which hinders student nurse originality and delays staff nurse growth. Faced with the present issues, self-reflection, localization, and multiple teaching strategies should be the critical developmental directions of hospice palliative education. In order to improve terminal care quality, it is also important to integrate practice, education, and research in order to train more hospice palliative nurses.