Evaluation of a nurse education workshop on children's grief.
This paper provides an overview of the development and evaluation of an educational program to increase the knowledge of hospice and paediatric nurses who support grieving children and improve their attitudes toward death and bereavement. The specific target groups for the project included nurses providing care through community-based hospice services and inpatient palliative care units, as well as nurses providing inpatient and community-based care at a children's teaching hospital. Fifty-nine nurses from hospice, community and inpatient settings participated in three workshops. Results indicated that the workshop produced a sustained improvement in bereavement knowledge among the nurses and an improvement in their attitudes toward death and bereavement.
Kristjanson
Linda
L
School of Nursing, Midwifery & Postgraduate Medicine, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
Cousins
Kerry
K
Macpherson
Rosemary
R
Dadd
Gaye
G
Watkins
Rosemary
R
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D002666:Psychology, Child / Q000193:education*; D014904:Western Australia