Challenges Facing Hospital Based Nurses who Provide Palliative Care for Patients with Chronic and Serious Illness | ||
| Mansoura Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 10, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 181-191 PDF (429.8 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mnj.2023.340380 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Manar Ahmed Mansour Mohammed* 1; Karima El shamy* 2; Hanan Mohamed* 2 | ||
| 1medical-surgical,faculty of nursing, mansoura university | ||
| 2Assist Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of patients' life and their families facing the problems associated with a life-threatening illness. Nurses are the largest regulated group of healthcare providers in palliative care provision. They are the primary providers of palliative care. Many nurses involved in palliative care face challenges to provide palliative care. Aim: Assess challenges facing hospital based nurses who provide palliative care for patients with chronic and serious illness. Sample: A convenience sample of 120 nurses, who provide palliative care at Dekernes General Hospital, affiliated to Ministry of health, Egypt.Method: A descriptive exploratory research design was used. Tool: One tool was used for data collection. Part 1: challenges facing nurses who provide palliative care related to nurses themselves. Part 2: challenges facing nurses who provide palliative care related to patients and their families. Part 3: challenges facing nurses who provide palliative care related to hospital system. In addition to nurses’ demographic characteristics. Results: There are many challenges facing nurses who provide palliative care. Majority of these challenges related to patients and their families (76.2%). Half of these challenges related to nurses (52.8%). While, challenges related to hospital system (34.2%). Conclusion: According to the findings gathered in our study, it was concluded that:, nurses indeed face numerous challenges in providing effective palliative care for patients with chronic and serious illness: the most challenges they themselves as nursing staff face is the work related load, followed by in adequate numbers / or shortage of nurses providing palliative care, then lack of communication between the nurses and patients/their family, and Lack of nurses’ experience in providing palliative care for those types of patients. Recommendation: The hospital administrative authoritarians that are responsible for hiring and staffing nurses should make sure that nurses are well staffed and that they are not overworked to be able to provide effective palliative care for patients with chronic and serious illness | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Challenges; Nurses; Palliative Care; chronic illness | ||
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