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Effect of Online Education on Critical Care Nurses' Knowledge and Attitude about End-of-Life Care for Covid-19 Elderly Patients

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: End-of-life care (EOLC) is a continuum of palliative care for elderly COVID-19
patients which need more education. Critical care nurses earned benefits from an online education
to improve their knowledge and attitude regarding several kinds of practice. Aim of the study:
evaluate the effect of online education on critical care nurses' knowledge and attitude about end-of-
life care for covid-19 elderly patients. Design: A quasi-experimental research design (pre/post-test).
Sample: Convenient sample included 90 registered nurses who assigned to work at critical units of
the isolation University Hospitals, Cardiothoracic, Renal, and Liver Hospital at Minia University,
Minia City, Egypt. Results: critical care nurses' Mean ± SD of age were (24.2 ± 2.9) and (58.9%)
of them were female. It was noticed that (20%) of the nurses had satisfactory knowledge about
EOLC for Covid-19 elderly patients at pretest and increased to (94.4%) at posttest. High percentage
of nurses had negative attitude about EOLC at pretest (86.7%) but at the post test (100%) of their
attitude changed to positive after the online education. Conclusion: The present study concluded
that online education improved critical care nurses' knowledge and positively improved their
attitude about EOLC for the COVID-19 elderly patients. Recommendations: Critical care nurses
need formal online education about the importance of EOLC for the elderly COVID-19 patients

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2022.255638

Keywords

End Of Life, COVID-19, Elderly, online education, and Critical Nurses

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Asma

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Ali Ahmad Mohamed

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Lecturer of Critical care Nursing and emergency, Faculty of Nursing- Minia University, Egypt.

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Aml

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S. Abdelbaky

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Lecturer of Geriatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing- Minia University, Egypt.

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Aml

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Ali Mohamed

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Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing- Minia University, Egypt.

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Marwa

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M. Abdelbaky

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Assistant Professor of Critical care Nursing and emergency, Faculty of Nursing- Minia University, Egypt.

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13

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3

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35657

Issue Date

2022-09-01

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2022-08-21

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2022-09-01

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849

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858

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Online Education on Critical Care Nurses' Knowledge and Attitude about End-of-Life Care for Covid-19 Elderly Patients

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22 Jan 2023