The effect of a Finnish national palliative care specialisation education on nurse's palliative care competence: A pretest-posttest study

BMC Palliat Care. 2025 Oct 28;24(1):273. doi: 10.1186/s12904-025-01913-0.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Nurses play an important role in caring for patients in palliative care and they need sufficient palliative care competence. Additionally, the need for palliative care is increasing. Therefore, palliative care and end-of-life care is one of the fields where nurses’ specialisation education is needed the most. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of postgraduate specialist education on nurses’ palliative care competence and the association between participants’ age or work experiences and changes in their palliative care competencies.METHODS: The data were collected through electronic surveys at the beginning and…
Origen: The effect of a Finnish national palliative care specialisation education on nurse's palliative care competence: A pretest-posttest study – PubMed