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Nurses' knowledge about palliative care in Southeast Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2013

Sedigheh Iranmanesh ,
Farideh Razban ,
Batool Tirgari  and
Ghazanfari Zahra
Sedigheh Iranmanesh
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Farideh Razban*
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Batool Tirgari
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Ghazanfari Zahra*
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Farideh Razban, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. E-mail: razbanfarideh@yahoo.com
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Farideh Razban, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. E-mail: razbanfarideh@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Objective:

Palliative care requires nurses to be knowledgeable about different aspects of the care that they provide for dying patients. This study, therefore, was conducted to examine oncology and intensive care nurses' knowledge about palliative care in Southeast Iran.

Method:

Using the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN), 140 oncology and intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' knowledge about palliative care in three hospitals supervised by Kerman University of Medical Sciences was assessed.

Results:

In PCQN, the mean score was 7.59 (SD: 2.28). The most correct answers were in the category of management of pain and other symptoms (46.07%). The lowest correct answers were in the category of psychosocial and spiritual care (19.3%).

Significance of results:

These findings suggest that nurses' knowledge about palliative care can be improved by establishing specific palliative care units to focus on end-of-life care. This establishment requires incorporation of an end-of-life nursing education curriculum into undergraduate nursing studies.

Keywords

South-EastIranNursesKnowledgePalliative carePalliative care education
Type
Original Articles
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 203 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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