Hospice News September 20, 2023
Recent research has tied nurses’ insufficient knowledge of palliative care to underutilization of those services in various countries worldwide.
Researchers from the School of Nursing at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Guang’an Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s director office recently performed a systematic review of various studies throughout the globe that examined nurses’ knowledge of palliative care.
“It can be seen that nurses’ mastery of palliative care knowledge is not sufficient,” researchers said in the BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care analysis. “It is recommended that relevant departments formulate and promote the implementation of targeted measures to improve the knowledge level of this population.”
The research spanned 40 studies across 10 databases in 12 countries from 2010 to 2021...
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