Kampo Medical Education for University Students of Health Education

Yakubo, Shuji; Kinoshita, Yuko; Ueda, Yukiko; Koizumi, Kuniya; Fujita, Yukihiko; Niimi, Masanori; Komaki, Koichi

doi:10.3937/kampomed.62.65

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“…According to a survey conducted at 469 nursing institutes nationwide, 17 institutions (3.6%) have actually introduced lectures and exercises on Kampo medicine in their basic nursing education [5]. It has been found that, because there are few nurse training institutes that provide education on Kampo medicine, most nurses do not have a strong basic education in Kampo medicine [6]. In addition, according to a survey conducted on 96 participants in training sessions on Kampo medicine for nurses, only 2 nurses (2.4%) had learned about Kampo medicine, while 24 nurses (28.6%) provided guidance on Kampo medicine in clinical practice [7].…”

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Survey on Handling Telephone Consultations at a Kampo Outpatient Clinic in Japan - Difficult Consultations and Their Handling by Outpatient Nurses

Koike¹,

Namiki²,

Fujita³

et al. 2020

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Aim: In order to clarify how nurses respond to telephone consultations in a Kampo medicine outpatient clinic, a fact-finding survey was conducted on the difficulties involved in handling telephone calls. Methods: The subjects were two outpatient nurses. The contents of consultations that the nurse could not handle alone were extracted from the descriptive data of the telephone calls that each nurse was not able to handle and categorized. Guidelines developed in conjunction with physicians were introduced to clarify and address the causes of the difficulty. One year later, we again administered the telephone response survey so as to compare the results with those of the first survey. Results: Telephone consultations that were difficult for nurses to handle were classified into four categories: 1) consultations about physical disorders, 2) questions about prescribed Kampo medicines, 3) reports and questions based on the patient's own judgment, and 4) questions about treatment and hospitalization. The questions about Kampo medicines related to their "continued administration" and "mix-ups of drugs," and the questions based on patients' self-judgments related to the "reduction of" or "change in" Kampo medicines. One year later, the number of such cases declined to less than half, and no telephone consultations were made within one week after the first visit. Conclusion: As a result of the creation and introduction of guidelines in consultation with physicians, outpatient nurses are now able to answer questions and receive fewer phone calls after patients' first visits.

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confidence: 99%