Attitude and self-perceiving in palliative care competencies among professional nurses at different levels of experiences
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Background: Nurses play an important role in providing palliative care to patients and their families. The study of factors influencing palliative care performance is unclear, particularly attitudes toward death and work experiences related to self-perceived palliative care competencies.
Objectives: This descriptive study aimed to investigate and examine the relationship between attitudes, work experiences, and self-perceived palliative care competencies of registered nurses.
Method: The sample of this study consisted of a group of 246 nurses working in a tertiary hospital under the supervision of the Thai Ministry of Public Health in the central region. A stratified random sample of nurses from different departments was drawn to select the sample. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Spearman correlation coefficient.
Results: The results showed that the participants had a strong positive attitude (M=115.39, SD=8.55). Nurses with 2- 4 years of nursing experience had the highest attitude score (M=116.21, SD=7.14), associated with moderate levels of self-perceived competence (M=183.81, SD=44.83). Nurses with less than 2 years of nursing experience had the highest score of self-perceived competencies (M=193.09, SD=47.84). Thus, there was a significant positive correlation between attitudes and self-perceived competencies (r =.300; p <.01). In contrast, work experience had no significant relationship with attitudes and self-perceived palliative care competencies.
Conclusion: Nurses with different work experiences had positive attitudes and moderate self-esteem related to self-perceived palliative care competencies. Positive attitudes increased self-perceived palliative care competencies. However, work experience did not affect attitudes or self-perceived palliative care competencies. To improve the quality of patient care, nurses should be encouraged to recognize their self-perceived palliative care competencies.
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