Oncology nurses knowledge and willingness of promoting advanced care planning in Southwest China

26^th World Congress on Nursing Care

May 21-23, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Meng-Yan Tang and Xiao-Ling Li

Sichuan University, China

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Introduction & Purpose: Only a few researches relating to ACP were conducted at the nurses��? point of view and little is known about the nurses��? knowledge and their willingness of promoting ACP in China. The aim of this study was to investigate oncology nurses��? knowledge and their willingness of promoting ACP, and explore the influencing factors related to knowledge and willingness of promoting ACP. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate 350 nurses in 4 oncology departments of 4 different university hospitals in China. Results: Among them, 176 never received hospice care education (60.1%), 213 never heard of ACP (72.7%) and 261 never received training about ACP (89.1%). Nurses with higher position title (�?2=18.41, p<0.001), longer working experience (�?2=12.25, p=0.001) were more likely to received hospice care education; nurses with higher educational background (�?2=12.91, p<0.001), higher position title (�?2=9.77, p=0.003), and longer working experience (�?2=7.92, p=0.006) had a greater chance to heard about ACP; nurses with higher position title had more opportunities to receive relating training ( �?2=5.10, p=0.03). Heard about ACP (t=-3.26, p=0.001; B=3.113, p=0.018) and received training about ACP (t=-2.71, p=0.007; B=3.894, p=0.04) were associated with willingness of promoting ACP. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that oncology nurses are willing to promote ACP but with very poor knowledge in China. A systematic and adequate training toward ACP for nurses is in urgent need to build this ACP training fit for Chinese nurses, three important factors as the nurses��? level of education, position title and working experience are must be considered, thus, a targeted ACP training for nurses in different seniority is needed.

Biography :

Meng-Yan Tang has completed her bachelor’s degree from Nursing School, West China Hospital of Medicine, Sichuan University, China. Presently she is a graduate student of Nursing School, West China Hospital of Medicine, Sichuan University, China.
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