Nursing Assistant EOL Care Computerized Education

描述（由申请人提供）：已作出努力，以提高卫生保健提供者的知识和技能，在提供照顾绝症患者及其家属。 尽管有几个针对护士和医生的教育计划和产品，但很少有针对护理助理的，这些护理助理是重要的医疗团队成员，他们经常花最多的时间与病人和家属在一起。 教育这一群体的努力面临若干挑战，包括教育水平相对较低、语言困难和继续教育资金有限。 拟议的护理助理临终关怀计算机化教育项目（NA-CEP）的目的是通过开发和测试计算机化教育计划，提高护理助理的临终关怀（EOL）知识和技能。 本计画的具体目标是：1）发展一个互动的、多媒体的电脑程式，以教授所有实务环境中的护理助理必要的临终关怀与缓和照护概念; 2）评估该程式的下列特性：易用性、呈现的清晰度、阅读/内容层次的适当性、与实务的相关性; 3）评估该计划在增加护理患者和家属的知识，技能和信心方面的有效性; 4）传播该计划和项目的结果，并确保该计划的持续更新和使用。 该项目的一个独特之处是研究人员与临终关怀和姑息护理护士协会（HPNA）之间的伙伴关系，以根据临终关怀和姑息护理护理助理实践的国家范围和标准制定该计划。 瑞典医学中心和HPNA之间的合作也将确保在赠款资助期结束后计算机程序的持续更新和实用性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Efforts have been made to enhance health care providers' knowledge and skills in delivering care to terminally-ill patients and their families. Despite several educational programs and products for nurses and physicians, few are directed at reaching nursing assistants, important health care team members who often spend the most time with patients and families. Several factors challenge efforts to educate this group, including relatively low educational levels, language difficulties, and limited continuing education funds. The purpose of the proposed Nursing Assistant End-of-Life Care Computerized Education Project (NA-CEP) is to enhance nursing assistants' end-of-life (EOL) knowledge and skills through the development and testing of a computerized educational program. The specific aims of this project are to: 1) Develop an interactive, media-rich computer program to teach essential hospice and palliative care concepts to nursing assistants in all practice settings; 2) Evaluate the program on the following characteristics: ease of use, clarity of presentation, appropriateness of reading/content level, and relevance to practice; 3) Evaluate the program's effectiveness in increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of NAs caring for patients and families at the EOL; 4) Disseminate the program and project findings and ensure continual updating and use of the program. A unique feature of this project is the partnership between the investigators and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) to develop the program in accordance with the national scope and standards for hospice and palliative care nursing assistant practice. A collaboration between Swedish Medical Center and HPNA also will ensure the continuing updating and usefulness of the computer program following the end of the grant funding period.