Nursing Assistant EOL Care Computerized Education

描述（由申请人提供）：已努力提高保健提供者在向绝症患者及其家属提供护理方面的知识和技能。尽管有一些针对护士和医生的教育项目和产品，但很少有针对护理助理的，护理助理是医疗团队中重要的成员，他们经常与病人和家属呆在一起。教育这一群体的努力面临着几个因素的挑战，包括相对较低的教育水平、语言困难和有限的继续教育资金。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来提高护理助理的临终关怀（EOL）知识和技能。

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.