nursing and autopsy

NARITA Yugo, TAKEUCHI Sachie, FUKUROKU Keiko

doi:10.69223/0000012654

This short review focuses on the meaning of dissection and autopsy in nursing, along with primary education on human anatomy for undergraduates (especially for first-year students) at our school of nursing. First-year students have the opportunity to take the guided tour on systematic dissection for medical students’ normal anatomy. But it has been only once throughout the whole school years as nursing students. Human dissection has been classified into three categories according to situation: 1) systematic dissection for normal anatomy, 2) pathological autopsy in a clinical setting, usually to be performed immediately after patient’s death, and 3) judicial autopsy or administrative autopsy, which has been included in the social system for safety management and solving forensic issues. The number of pathological autopsy cases has been declining since the mid1980s, not only in Japan, but also in every developed Western country. Recently autopsy imaging has been introduced in clinical fields by the government. It has already affected many safety management systems at hospitals in Japan. Nurses are less aware of pathological autopsy than medical doctors. However, nurses are more sensitive to the emotional needs of dying patients and their families, for whom the role of Pathology Liaison Nurse is expected to reduce their conflicts between on facing the patient’s death and on clarifying the cause of and potential treatment for diseases. Such nurses may be able to raise their hope to establish the treatment even for intractable diseases.

nursing and autopsy

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