title: Evaluation of a nurse education workshop on children's grief.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery & Postgraduate Medicine, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kristjanson
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cousins
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Macpherson
authors.forename: Gaye
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dadd
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: 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