title: Home visiting nurses' attitudes toward caring for dying patients, and related workplace factors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify workplace factors related to home visiting nurses (HVNs) positive attitudes toward caring for dying patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this cross-sectional study, 343 HVNs working in 62 agencies across Chiba prefecture, eastern Japan, received an anonymous self-administered questionnaire from July to August 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  304 questionnaires (88.6%) were returned, and the data of 206 HVNs (60.1%) in 54 different agencies was analysed. Multiple regression analysis showed that attendance at terminal care seminars, agency support of schedule organisation enabling attendance at terminal care seminars, and positive feedback from patients and families were significantly positively associated with HVNs' attitudes toward terminal care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results may give useful interventional methods for nursing managers to enhance HVNs terminal care practices.
authors: Department of Community Health Nursing, Division of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan. sfmahiro-tky@umin.ac.jp
authors: Mahiro
authors: M
authors: Sakai
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Naruse
authors: Satoko
authors: S
authors: Nagata
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013727:Terminal Care; D017132:Workplace