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Background: Many nursing students are ill-prepared to care for patients nearing the end of their lives and lack knowledge about palliative care. A focused teaching strategy could help students better understand their own feelings and conduct. It could also foster positive attitudes that make it easier to provide outstanding care.
Objective: To evaluate the efficiency of palliative education programme for nursing students caring for patients at the end of life.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study was carried out with 216 nursing students from Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University in Alkharj, Saudi Arabia, using a proportionate stratified random sampling approach. The educational intervention consisted of three key modules: bereavement support, understanding the dying process and specialised palliative nursing care. Students engaged with 60 video segments through the Blackboard platform, available on a smartphone or tablet. Data collection involved four questionnaires: (a) a demographic survey, (b) the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing, (c) the Frommelt Attitudes Towards Care of the Dying Scale, and (d) the Death Attitude Profile-Revised.
Results: Slightly over half of the nursing students (51.9%) were younger than 20 years, with a mean age of 22.8±13.5 years, and 51.4% were female. The vast majority of participants in this study (86.6%) had no prior education or training in palliative care. After participating in the palliative education programme, students showed significant improvements in their overall knowledge, Frommelt Attitudes and Death Attitude Profile-Revised scores in the post-test assessment. These results highlight the programme's effectiveness in enhancing nursing students' comprehension and attitudes toward palliative care.
Conclusion: A palliative care education programme can improve nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward caring for patients at the end of life and supporting their families. Therefore, it is recommended that a palliative care course should be a mandatory part of nursing curricula. This course should incorporate experiential learning activities, including postmortem care, small group reflections and simulation-based training. To provide a well-rounded educational experience, these practical components should be reinforced with theoretical lectures.
Recommendations: Changing nurses' perceptions of mortality requires specialised training, and this should be prioritised in Saudi Arabia.
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