School of Nursing and Midwifery,Kerman University of Medical Sciences,Kerman,Iran.
Palliat Support Care. 2014 Jun;12(3):203-10. doi: 10.1017/S1478951512001058. Epub 2013 Aug 2.
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.
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.
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%).
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.
姑息治疗需要护士了解他们为临终患者提供的护理的各个方面。因此，本研究旨在检查伊朗东南部肿瘤和重症监护病房（ICU）护士对姑息治疗的知识。
使用姑息治疗护理问卷（PCQN），评估了由克尔曼医科大学监督的三家医院的 140 名肿瘤科和重症监护病房（ICU）护士对姑息治疗的知识。
在 PCQN 中，平均得分为 7.59（SD：2.28）。在疼痛和其他症状管理类别中，回答的正确率最高（46.07%）。在心理社会和精神关怀类别中，回答的正确率最低（19.3%）。
这些发现表明，可以通过建立专门的姑息治疗单位来关注临终关怀，从而提高护士对姑息治疗的知识。这一建立需要将临终护理教育课程纳入本科护理学习中。
