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- Title
Knowledge, attitude, confidence, and educational needs of palliative care in nurses caring for non-cancer patients: a cross-sectional, descriptive study.
- Authors
Kim, Sanghee; Lee, Kyunghwa; Kim, Sookyung
- Abstract
Background: Palliative care is a patient-centred, integrated approach for improving quality of life for both patients facing life-threatening illnesses and for their families. Although there has been increased interest in palliative care for non-cancer patients, the palliative care competency of nurses who care for non-cancer patients has rarely been investigated. This study described the palliative care knowledge, attitude, confidence, and educational needs in nurses who care for patients with congestive heart failure, stroke, end-stage renal disease, and end-stage liver disease; explored the relationships between those variables; and identified factors affecting nurses' palliative care confidence. Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational design was employed; data collection was conducted at a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea. Nurses who were working in general wards and intensive care units (N = 102) completed valid and reliable self-administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, frequencies, independent t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlations, and multiple regression were conducted to analyse the data. Results: Nurses' palliative care knowledge level was low (9.73 ± 2.10; range = 0–20) and their attitude toward palliative care was moderate (87.97 ± 6.93, range: 30–120). Knowledge was significantly correlated with attitude (r =.29, p =.003). Nurses were highly confident in pain and symptom management but demonstrated high educational needs for managing human and material resources to provide palliative care. Previous training in hospice, palliative, and EOL care was a significant and modifiable factor that affected nurses' confidence (std. β = 0.25, p =.010). Conclusions: To facilitate high-quality palliative care for non-cancer patients and families, nursing education programs should be developed to address nurses' knowledge level, confidence level, and educational needs. This study provides relevant information that can be utilised to develop palliative care educational programs for nurses who care for non-cancer patients.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; NURSING education; NURSING audit; CHRONIC kidney failure; CONFIDENCE; STATISTICAL correlation; HEART failure; INTENSIVE care units; LIVER failure; RESEARCH methodology; NURSES' attitudes; PALLIATIVE treatment; QUESTIONNAIRES; STROKE; T-test (Statistics); MULTIPLE regression analysis; ACQUISITION of data; CROSS-sectional method; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; TERTIARY care; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
BMC Palliative Care, 2020, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-684X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12904-020-00581-6