Markus A Feufel, John M Flach
Medical education should teach heuristics rather than train them away
Medical education
demand palliative care increasing rapidly inadequate knowledge practice remain significant issue study aimed assess nurses knowledge practice associated factors toward adult palliative care crosssectional study conducted including 277 randomly selected nurses may september 2021 data related knowledge gathered using palliative care quiz nursing observational checklist assess practice used epidata spss software used data entry analysis respectively descriptive statistics bivariable multivariable analyses also applied depending value adjusted odds ratio 95 confidence level statistical significance declared p value 05 findings showed 432 47 nurses good knowledge practice palliative care respectively odds trained nurses good knowledge 965 times higher 27 times odds practicing palliative care among nurses good knowledge poor knowledge overall half nurses poor knowledge practice palliative care enhance knowledge practice formal palliative care education training beneficial