Nurses' perceptions of medical procedures and nursing practices for older patients with non-cancer long-term illness and do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders: A vignette study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To elucidate influence of a do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) order on nurses' perceptions of the medical procedures and nursing practices for non-cancer older patients.

Design

A vignette-based questionnaire study.

Methods

A questionnaire survey asking nurses their perceptions of clinical practices for the following three vignettes was performed in a community hospital in Japan (N = 120): the control vignettes with an older patient with repeated heart failure who was living alone and the other two with either an absence of relatives or a diagnosis of dementia. We also prepared additions to each vignette describing a DNAR order.

Results

Nurses' perception on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, blood tests and intravenous nutrition showed

SUBMITTER: Higuchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7308706 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature