• Sedigheh Iranmanesh, Farideh Razban, Batool Tirgari, and Ghazanfari Zahra.
• School of Nursing and Midwifery,Kerman University of Medical Sciences,Kerman,Iran.
• Palliat Support Care. 2014 Jun 1; 12 (3): 203-10.

ObjectivePalliative care requires nurses to be knowledgeable about different aspects of the care that they provide for dying patients. This study, therefore, was conducted to examine oncology and intensive care nurses' knowledge about palliative care in Southeast Iran.MethodUsing the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN), 140 oncology and intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' knowledge about palliative care in three hospitals supervised by Kerman University of Medical Sciences was assessed.ResultsIn PCQN, the mean score was 7.59 (SD: 2.28). The most correct answers were in the category of management of pain and other symptoms (46.07%). The lowest correct answers were in the category of psychosocial and spiritual care (19.3%).Significance Of ResultsThese findings suggest that nurses' knowledge about palliative care can be improved by establishing specific palliative care units to focus on end-of-life care. This establishment requires incorporation of an end-of-life nursing education curriculum into undergraduate nursing studies.

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