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Assessment of Critical Care Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding Palliative Care

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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Background: In the Critical Care Unit (ICU), patients have a high death rate because of their complexity. One important factor that can enhance patient care is palliative care (PC).. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess Critical Care nurses' knowledge regarding Palliative Care. An exploratory descriptive research design was adopted. Setting and sample: During the study period, a convenience sample of all the critical care nurses working in the hospital's critical care units (a total of 74 nurses) was included. Two tools were used: Tool (1): Background information about nurses, Tool (2): questionnaire about critical care nurses' knowledge regarding palliative care. Results: The mean age of the nurses in the study was 29.167.27 years, and more than half of them were female and had less than five years of experience. The majority of nurses had adequate understanding of psychological and spiritual care, pain and symptom management, and the philosophy and principles of palliative care, while only had insufficient knowledge of these topics. Conclusion: Based on the results it concluded that Nurses' overall mean knowledge scores regarding palliative care were poor Recommendations: Develop in service training programs to raise the nurses' standards about palliative care.

DOI

10.21608/sjns.2023.235642.1024

Keywords

critical care nurses, Knowledge, and Palliative care

Authors

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Mona

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Mohamed Ahmed

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Abd Elnasser

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Critical care and emergency nursing department- sohag university

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monaabdelnassermohamed@gmail.com

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Mona

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Mohamed

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Aly

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Critical care and emergency nursing department- faculty of nursing-Assuit university

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mona@aun.edu.eg

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Assuit

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First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Mahran

MiddleName

Shalaby

Affiliation

critical care and emergency nursing department-faculty of nursing-Assuit university

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ghada.mahran@nursing.aun.edu.eg

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Assuit

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First Name

Sanaa

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Saber

Affiliation

Lecture of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, sohag University, Egypt

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dr.sanaa_saber@yahoo.com

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3

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4

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44597

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2024-01-01

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2023-09-10

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2024-01-01

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14

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26

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2974-3206

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2974-3214

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2,546

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Sohag Journal of Nursing Science

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Assessment of Critical Care Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding Palliative Care

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29 Dec 2024