The Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes towards the Palliative Care

Autor/inn/en	Ayed, Ahmad; Sayej, Sumaya; Harazneh, Lubna; Fashafsheh, Imad; Eqtait, Faeda
Titel	The Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes towards the Palliative Care
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Practice, 6 (2015) 4, S.91-99 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2222-1735
Schlagwörter	Nurses; Health Services; Knowledge Level; Case Studies; Foreign Countries; Patients; Quality of Life; Validity; Pilot Projects; Death; Correlation; Prevention; Identification; Pain; Mental Health; Cancer; Diseases; Employment Qualifications; Nursing Education; Public Policy; National Curriculum; Questionnaires; Attitude Measures; Statistical Analysis; Palestine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Wissensbasis; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausland; Patient; Lebensqualität; Gültigkeit; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Korrelation; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Schmerz; Psychohygiene; Carcinoma; Karzinom; Krebs (med); Krebserkrankung; Disease; Krankheit; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Pflegepädagogik; Öffentliche Ordnung; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Palästina
Abstract	Background: Palliative care (PC) is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems like physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care is traditionally viewed as being the intense care of a patient who is close to death. In recent years, the scope of palliative care has expanded to include patients who may live for many years with end stage organ failure or cancer. Aim of the Study: The study aimed to assess the nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards PC among nurses working in selected hospitals in Northern districts, Palestine. Subjects and methods: Descriptive, cross sectional study was used for conducting the study, A purposive sample consisted of 96 nurses invited to participate in the study. Data collected through; nurses' sociodemographic characteristic, knowledge level, and Attitude level towards PC which is developed by the researchers. Validity and pilot study were examined. Results: Study results have shown that 20.8% of the respondents had good overall knowledge towards PC, 59.4% had training of palliative care, and 6.2% of participants had good attitude towards PC. There was a significant difference between Nurses' qualification, experience, and training of palliative care towards Knowledge of PC. Conclusion: The nurses had poor knowledge, but their attitude towards PC was moderate. Recommendations are that due attention should be given towards PC by the national health policy and needs to be incorporated in the national curriculum of nurse education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01