The palliative care quiz for nursing (PCQN): the development of an instrument to measure nurses' knowledge of palliative care

Abstract

This paper descrihes the process and outcomes of a study to develop a tool to measure nurses' knowledge of palhative care The development of the palhative care quiz for nursing (PCQN) entailed the convening of an advisory committee, a wide process of consultation, the development of a conceptual firamework, determination of format, generating of items and pre‐testing, piloting and further testing of the quiz The PCQN is a 20‐item true, false and 'I don't know' test of knowledge that is easily administered and has utility for assessing knowledge, stimulating discussion and identifying misconceptions ahout palliative care nursing

Evaluation of End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium-Geriatric Train-the-Trainer Program in Korea

“…Item 5 concerned the presence of family members at the bedside until death occurs. In the original version, the difficulty of this item was 0.78 for Canadian registered nurses (Ross et al, 1996), in contrast to 0.00 in our study. After completion of the ELNEC-Geriatric course, the participants did not change their belief.…”

“…First, the effects of the program on nurses' knowledge of palliative care were measured with the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN), which was originally developed by Ross, McDonald and McGuinness (Ross, McDonald, & McGuinness, 1996). In this study, we used the Korean PCQN, which was translated into Korean and validated by Kim et al (2011).…”

Assessment of Knowledge and Associated Factors towards Palliative Care among Greek Nurses

“…and identify the most common held misconceptions about Palliative Care (Ross et al, 1996). Ross et al (1996) report an internal consistency of 0.78 for the PCQN, using the Kuder Richardson formula 20 .…”

“…This fact significantly impacted on continuing education programs for healthcare providers, and especially for nurses dealing with patients requiring sensitive and complex PC services. Proper training, information and attitude is very important for healthcare professionals providing care to those who are dying (Ross et al, 1996). The value of PC training to nurses' delivering care to chronically ill patients is unquestionable.…”

Awareness of palliative care medicine among medical and health care students

“…[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] This study can be considered as one of the first pilot study in any of the government medical colleges in Maharashtra teaching hospitals. Study results are comparable to the results obtained by above studies.…”