Nurses’ Awareness regarding Palliative Care of Patient with Cancer

Background: Palliative care for patients with cancer focuses on relieving pain, managing symptoms, and improving quality of life. It addresses physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs. This care is provided alongside curative treatments or as primary care when treatments are no longer effective. Aim: To assess nurses’ awareness regarding palliative care of patient with cancer. Research Design: Descriptive research design used to achieve the aim of this study. Setting: This study was conducted at outpatient clinic for palliative care and home care for oncology in Makkah hospitals, Saudia Arabia. Tools: An interview questionnaire: It consisting of four parts as the following: 1st part: Demographic characteristics, 2nd part: Nurses' knowledge, 3rd part: Attitude of nurses, 4th part: Nurses' reported practices regarding palliative care of patient with cancer. Results: 58.3 % of the studied nurses had poor knowledge regarding palliative care of patient with cancer. Also, 25.0 % of them had average knowledge regarding palliative care of patient with cancer.While, 54.70 % of them had negative total attitude regarding palliative care of patient with cancer and 68.55 % of them had unsatisfactory total reported practices regarding palliative care of patient with cancer. Conclusion: There was highly statistically significant relation between studied nurses’ total knowledge, attitude, and reported practices regarding palliative care of patient with cancer. Recommendations: Apply health educational program for nurses’ awareness regarding palliative care of patient with cancer in other hospital to generalize the results.