لبنى حرازنة ، أحمد عايد ، عماد فشافشة ، غونا عبد الناصر علي
المؤلفون بالإنجليزي
Lubna Harazneh, Ahmad Ayed, Imad Fashafsheh ,Ghona Abd El-Nasser Ali
الملخص الانجليزي
Background: Palliative care clinical nurse specialists play an important role in specialist palliative care. They
spend time with patients and their families, helping them come to terms with an array of complex emotional and
practical problems, facilitating communication, giving information and advice about treatments and also offering
expertise in controlling pain and other distressing symptoms. Aim of the study: The purpose of this study was to
assess the PC knowledge using PCQN of BSN students in Arab American University/ Jenin, Palestine.Subjects
and methods: Descriptive, cross sectional study was used for conducting the study, A convenience sample 198
nursing students were included from the two respective nursing levels third year and fourth year. Data collected
through; demographic characteristic and PC knowledge. The PCQN scale was used as the tool to assess the PC
knowledge level. Results: The total percentage rate on the PCQN was 40.58% (SD=13.89011). There is no
statistically significant difference at (p < 0.05) between PC knowledge and gender, academic level, personal or
professional experience with palliative care, and course of palliative care (0.377, 0.896, 0.741, and 0.829)
respectively. Highly statistically significant relation according age (p˃0.000).Conclusion: Clinical Relevance:
third and fourth level BSN students had lack adequate information on palliative care, and did not meet the
AACN expectation of a generalist registered nurse.
غني عبد الناصر علي محمد | Ghona Abd El-nasser Ali | 10977