End of life care is a rising nursing claim to fame and is building up a committed spot in the field of
pediatrics. As a specialty, End of life care concentrates on quality of life and side effect administration for
patients who are living with incessant and life-undermining sicknesses. In pediatrics, progress in human services
imply that numerous children are living longer with these conditions and could profit by administrations that
concentrate on personal satisfaction and unrivaled indication administration. Palliative care can be furnished
simultaneously with remedial treatments and is logically comparative yet particularly from hospice
administrations. Medical caretakers can give the ideal end of life tend to child comprehends of death,
empowering early start of palliative care benefits, and enhance the usage of palliative care in. The aim of the
current study was to evaluate Impact of Intervention Program on Quality of End of Life Care Provided by
Pediatric Critical Care The study utilized a quasi-experimental research design. The study sample consisted of
80 nurses they were randomly assigned into the study using simple random sampling. The study was conducted
in the NICU, PICU and oncology at Benha Specialized Pediatric Hospital. The required data were collected
using the following tools, structured interview sheet; Socio-demographic sheet and Knowledge and attitude
assessment sheet- The study results revealed that nurses who received the educational program demonstrated a
significantly higher mean score of knowledge and reported attitude regarding palliative care of children than
those in the control group. The highest percentages of nurses had been involved in the educational program had
more awareness of the goal and objectives of children palliative care than those in the control group. These
results support the proposed study hypotheses. It was recommended that continues follow up program about
palliative care for children. |
