title: [The role of home visiting nurse in the terminal care of cancer--from cooperation with other social resources].
abstract: The aim of home care is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of terminal cancer patients in their own homes. Home care includes: 1) medical and nursing services available 24 hr a day; 2) activation of social resources for the support of the patient user, and his or her family; and 3) constructive cooperation with related institutions. Home care can result in expanded activities of daily living by relieving the patient's anxiety, controlling his or her pain, and preventing bedsores. It also serves to decrease the anxiety of the family and helps produce feelings of satisfaction regarding care. Home visiting nurse have played a pivotal role in certain cases by coordinating and gaining cooperation between the supply of the required social resources and the institutions related to this, for the terminal cancer patient at home. Nurses can accurately plan for care suited to the individual terminal cancer home patient and provide the proper environment for treatment. As a result, they are able to improve the user's QOL. They also function effectively as a go-between in conferences among persons, including family, related to setting up a place in the home for terminal care.
authors.affiliation: Home Visiting Nursing Care Station, Minami-ku Medical Center, Minami-ku Physician's Association.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takasuna
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing; D010346:Patient Care Management; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D013727:Terminal Care