Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A (2025)

Palliative care has a significant role in the health care system which offers support to patients and family until end and after death also. It can be started alongside other treatments from the very beginning to improve the quality of life of patients and family members. This palliative care is a team approach where nurses play a significant role. Most of the time nurses only spent time with the patient in the hospital. So it is very important to train nurses regarding palliative care so that they can manage pain, symptom burden by maintaining ethical principles at the end of life stage effectively. In this paper the author conducts a pilot approach where extensive palliative care training was provided to students.
Objective: To assess the existing knowledge of the students and to evaluate the effectiveness of palliative care training.
Methods: Quasi experimental research design was adopted in this quantitative approach. Samples were selected by non-probability convenient sampling. In this quasi experimental study multiple choice questionnaires were prepared where 12 questions were demographic related questions and 40 questions were knowledge related questions. Tool was validated by 7 experts from different areas. After validation of tool reliability test was done by the method of kearl pearson's formula. Reliability was 0.93 which indicated the tool was highly reliable.
Results: The mean posttest was 23.76 which is higher than mean pretest knowledge i.e 15.66 and the median of posttest is 23 was higher than median of pretest score which signifies after training students gain knowledge. Paired t test was commuted to assess the effectiveness of the training programme. calculated t test was 7.17 (p< 0.05) which was more than p value (1.67) at 0.05 level of significance at 55 degrees of freedom which implies there was true mean difference between pre and posttest. Researchers conduct one more test after one month. At that time the mean and median of knowledge score again decreased but higher than pretest score.
Conclusion: Continuous palliative care training is necessary to retain knowledge among nursing students.