Assessment of the Competence of Nurses in Taking Care of a Dying Patient in Poland.

ABSTRACT: During nursing education, few practical hours are devoted to comprehensively preparing students to care for a dying patient. Contact with a dying patient is a key element of the job of every working nurse in the profession. Therefore, it is necessary to properly prepare nurses to care for a dying patient. This study aimed to assess the professional competence of nurses in caring for a dying patient and the factors that affect this preparation. This study involved 223 nurses during master's degree in nursing at the Medical University of Warsaw, receiving either full-time education (group I, N = 121) or hybrid education (group II, N = 102). The study used the FATCOD-BP ((Frommelt Attitudes Toward the Care Of the Dying scale Form B, Polish version)) questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha 0.75), an o

SUBMITTER: Sadowska A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042412 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature