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Tirgari, Batool
- Nurses' Knowledge about and Attitude towards Palliative Care in Southeast Iran
Authors
1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IR
2 Neuroscience Research Center, Neuropharmacology Institute of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IR
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 399-404Abstract
Background: Palliative care requires nurses to be knowledgeable about and maintain a positive attitude towards different aspects of care they provide for dying patients. This study thus was conducted to examine the correlation between nurses' knowledge about and attitude towards palliative care in southeast Iran.
Method: For this descriptive correlational study, Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN) and a selfadministered questionnaire were used to assess respectively the palliative care knowledge and attitudes of 140 oncology and ICU nurses from three hospitals supervised by Kerman University of Medical Science.
Results: In PCQN, the mean score was 7.59±2.28 out of 20. Participants had moderately negative to neutral attitudes toward palliative care (2.99±0.29 out of 5). There was a significant correlation between the subscale of "management of pain of and other symptoms" in PCQN and participants' length of experience caring for a dying family member. A significant correlation was found between nurses' attitudes toward palliative care and palliative care education, personal study about palliative care, level of education, and experience of caring for a dying family member. No correlation was found between nurses' knowledge about and attitude towards palliative care.
Conclusions: The study suggests that a continuing palliative care education may need to be added to the nursing curriculum in order to improve the quality of care at the end of life. Establishing specific palliative care units and creating a reflective narrative environment in which nurses can express their own feelings about palliative care and can improve palliative care knowledge and attitude.
Keywords
Southeast Iran, Nurses, Knowledge, Attitude, Palliative Care.
- Spiritual Care:Iranian Critical Care Nurses’ Perception
Authors
1 Neuroscience Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IR
2 Department of Medicine at Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IR
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 3, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 262-266Abstract
Background: Spiritual care is an essential component in nursing practice and strongly influenced by the socio-cultural context. This study was conducted to examine Iranian critical care nurses' perception of spiritual care in South-East of Iran. Like most Iranians, nurses consider themselves religious and religious beliefs are often, in an explicit way, integrated into their spiritual issues. Spiritual care is highly considered by majority of Iranian nurses. Providing spiritual care may be influenced by nurses' perception and their views of spiritual care. Since in the context there is no study to actually assess nurses' perception of spiritual care, this study conducted to fulfill this aim.
Method: The study employed a descriptive design. A census sample consisted of 152 critical care nurses working in critical care units supervised by Kerman Medical University participated in this study. Iranian Spiritual Care Questionnaire was used to assess Iranian critical care nurses' perception of spiritual care.
Results: The critical care nurses, mean score of spiritual care perception was 98.89 ± 16.50. It means that nurses had neutral to positive perception of spiritual care.
Conclusion: Spiritual care raises a demand that calls nurses to create a close relationship with patients. The physical and organisational context must be supportive and enable nurses to stand up to the demands of close relationships.