Development of the Mitori care continuing educational program for registered general nurses and educational evaluation of the program: an approach to nursing teams of general wards

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This study aimed to examine effectiveness of the End-of-life Nursing Care Continuing Education Program for general ward nurses. A nonrandomized, before-after trial was conducted. The program was implemented for 25 nurses. The contentsof the program consisted of the family assessment, general symptom management and practical use of theories and models regarding end-of-life nursing care. The primary outcome, implementation ability of end-of-life nursing care, was significantly improved after the program; improvements continued even at 2 months after. Similar results were obtained for nurses’ confidence and knowledge concerning end-of-life nursing care. As for attitude toward end-of-life care, participants’ scores were further elevated after the program. The participants rated the usefulness of the program as high. The effectiveness of the program was suggested from these results. In the future, this program should be widely used for in-service training.