Final year nursing students' knowledge regarding the use of analgesics in terminal patient care
Merijärvi, Laura; Hämäläinen Franke Miranda, Deborah (2019)
Merijärvi, Laura
Hämäläinen Franke Miranda, Deborah
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904165460
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904165460
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Finland has reached a time when the population is aging rapidly. This brings new challenges to the field of healthcare; more services are required, and aging population naturally increases the need of palliative and terminal care all around Finland. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has recommended that the competence of nurses should be increased, to provide good quality care for the ones in need of palliative and terminal care.
This thesis studies the knowledge of Laurea’s third- and fourth year nursing students regarding the use of analgesics in terminal patient care, Data was collected using quantitative research method, and the design was a survey study. The aim was to provide a trustworthy content to Laurea to use in the future in planning of the curriculum to the students of nursing.
Results, with a sample size of 121 from a population of 647 and 8% margin of error indicated that nursing students’ have better knowledge than what the authors anticipated. On average n=68 (56%) of the students answered correctly to the survey’s knowledge test, which consisted from 7 questions each measuring the knowledge regarding commonly used analgesics in terminal care. Attitudes were very positive as well; the data indicates strongly, that majority of nursing students feel it is important to learn about the use of analgesics in terminal care and most n=98 (81%) would participate to a course about palliative care.
This study provided information on which the authors are very pleased, however further studies are to be made to study the national level of nursing student competence of this topic, as this study limits to Laurea’s University of Applied Science.
This thesis studies the knowledge of Laurea’s third- and fourth year nursing students regarding the use of analgesics in terminal patient care, Data was collected using quantitative research method, and the design was a survey study. The aim was to provide a trustworthy content to Laurea to use in the future in planning of the curriculum to the students of nursing.
Results, with a sample size of 121 from a population of 647 and 8% margin of error indicated that nursing students’ have better knowledge than what the authors anticipated. On average n=68 (56%) of the students answered correctly to the survey’s knowledge test, which consisted from 7 questions each measuring the knowledge regarding commonly used analgesics in terminal care. Attitudes were very positive as well; the data indicates strongly, that majority of nursing students feel it is important to learn about the use of analgesics in terminal care and most n=98 (81%) would participate to a course about palliative care.
This study provided information on which the authors are very pleased, however further studies are to be made to study the national level of nursing student competence of this topic, as this study limits to Laurea’s University of Applied Science.