Application study on nursing pathway of cancer patients in agonal stage in hospice care unit

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1009-6493.2016.19.016

Abstract：Objective:To probe into the application effect of nursing pathway of cancer patients in agonal stage in hospice care unit .Methods:The study was a non parallel controlled trial .A total of 40 patients who met the in-clusion criteria before the implementation of the pathway were taken as control group ,and they received routine nursing ;while another 40 patients in pathway group received agonal nursing path management .Occurrence situ-ation of 5 kinds of symptoms including pain ,dyspnea ,nausea and vomiting ,discharge obstruction ,irritability of patients were recorded per 4 h ,and the scale of care quality evaluation was filled in after they died by their fami-ly members .Results:Incidence of 5 kinds of symptoms in pathway group was significantly lower than that in control group .There was statistically significant difference in pain and dyspnea (P<0 .05) .There was statisti-cally significant differences in total recorded number of symptoms per 4 h including incidence of pain ,dyspnea , discharge obstruction(P<0 .05) ,and the score of hospice nursing quality in pathway group was higher than that in control group (P< 0 .05) .Conclusion:The implement of nursing pathway of cancer patients in agonal stage could control symptoms of cancer patients in agonal stage ,improve quality of hospice life of advanced cancer patients and enhance the overall quality of care .