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| Title |
Finnish nursing students’ perceptions of the development needs in palliative care education and factors influencing learning in undergraduate nursing studies – a qualitative study
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| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, March 2022
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12904-022-00915-6 |
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| Authors |
Minna Hökkä, Juho T. Lehto, Helvi Kyngäs, Tarja Pölkki |
| Abstract |
Nurses have an essential role in providing high-quality palliative care to patients and their families. Hence, they require adequate palliative care education. However, there is only limited insight into how final-year nursing students perceive palliative care education in undergraduate nursing programs. This study aimed to describe nursing students' perspectives of the development needs of palliative care education. An additional two aims emerged based on the collected data, namely, to describe the preferred education for palliative care and the factors which promote or hinder palliative care learning during undergraduate nursing studies. The research was guided by a descriptive qualitative approach and applied inductive content analysis. The frequencies (f) of identified codes (reduced expressions) were counted to show the noteworthiness of each category in relation to the entirety. The participants were final-year nursing students (n = 766) who had participated in a national survey. The inductive content analysis identified three unifying categories. The first was 'Development needs and views of palliative care education' (f = 524), which consisted of the main categories 'the need to develop palliative care education' (f = 414) and 'meaning of palliative care and its education' (f = 110). Secondly 'Preferred types of palliative care education' (f = 1379), including the main categories 'teaching contents in palliative care education' (f = 905), 'teaching methods for palliative care learning' (f = 393), and 'placement of palliative care studies' (f = 81). Thirdly 'The facilitators and barriers to palliative care learning' (f = 401), consisting of the main categories 'factors facilitating palliative care learning' (f = 66) and 'barriers to palliative care learning' (f = 335). This study provides detailed information about nursing student's perspectives of palliative care education and its development needs. Hence, the results are relevant to decision-makers who want to develop undergraduate nursing curricula. This study highlights that palliative care education should be developed by ensuring that all students have equal access to palliative care education provided by highly competent teachers. Possibilities for clinical placements or visits to palliative care units during the education should also be improved. The participating students felt unprepared to provide high-quality palliative care even though they responded that palliative care is an important topic in their nursing studies. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Finland | 2 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| Spain | 2 | 20% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 50% |
| Scientists | 4 | 40% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 58 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 3% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 3% |
| Professor | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 37 | 64% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 24% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Sports and Recreations | 1 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 37 | 64% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 March 2022.
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#4,286,767
of 23,452,723 outputs
Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#573
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#96,993
of 441,869 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#13
of 48 outputs
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