Improving Palliative Care Knowledge of nurses caring for heart failure patients : Author and corresponding author.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 80% of patients with advanced heart failure (HF) die within five years of diagnosis and may benefit from palliative care (PC). PC is underutilized in HF patients. One barrier is nurses' insufficient knowledge of PC. This quality improvement project aimed to enhance the PC knowledge of nurses caring for patients with HF in a Canadian tertiary care setting.

Method

This project was guided by the Knowledge-to-Action framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to identify nurses' learning needs, which informed the development of the educational sessions. These sessions were delivered using hybrid, virtual, and asynchronous modalities. PC knowledge tests were used pre- and post-intervention to evaluate the nurses' PC knowledge. The data were prese

SUBMITTER: Ali S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11830193 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature