Literature Review Focusing on the Difficulties Nurses Experience in Providing Care for Elderly Patients with Dementia in Acute Care Hospitals in Japan

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  • わが国における急性期病院で認知症高齢者をケアする看護師の困難感に関する文献レビュー
  • ワガクニ ニ オケル キュウセイキ ビョウイン デ ニンチショウ コウレイシャ オ ケア スル カンゴシ ノ コンナンカン ニ カンスル ブンケン レビュー

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<p>This literature review aims to investigate the present state of research into difficulties nurses experience in providing care for elderly patients with dementia in acute care hospitals in Japan.</p><p>We searched the Ichushi Web and CiNii databases, using the key terms : “elderly with dementia”, “nurses”, and “difficulties” published from 1982 to July 2017. Nine articles that investigated difficulties nurses had experienced in providing care for elderly patients with dementia in acute care hospitals were chosen for analysis. The articles were classified by author, purpose, subject, methods, and results, and seven of the nine were analyzed qualitatively with the remaining two quantitatively evaluated.</p><p>Reports on difficulties nurses experience in providing care for elderly patients with dementia in acute care hospitals began to report in 2002, and the number of studies on this topic has increased since 2012. In the qualitative analysis we classified the difficulties identified in this study population into three types : difficulties arising from understanding problems experienced by elderly patients with dementia, those related to the environment of the hospital, and those related to nursing with respect to elderly patients with dementia. The quantitative analysis showed that many nurses experienced difficulties in this kind of nursing. In future studies, it will be necessary to investigate factors related to the difficulties, such as how serious nurses feel that these difficulties are and what types of nurses strongly feel these difficulties.</p>

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