ArticlePalliative medicine reports2025
Structured Palliative Care Training Enhances Nursing Competence: Evidence from Breast Cancer Care.
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- Oncology nurses at the frontline of palliative care: knowledge, attitudes, and factors associated with palliative care practice.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Advanced breast cancer patients often require palliative care (PC) to manage significant symptoms, relying heavily on nurses' competence. Objective: Evaluate whether a structured PC training program can enhance nurses' competence in breast cancer care. Methods: After an online announcement at Zhejiang Hospital, nurses enrolled in the PC training program. Due to the imbalance in trained and untrained nurses post-training, stratified randomization was applied, forming untrained ( Results: At baseline, there were no significant differences in nursing competence or patient quality of life between the trained and untrained groups. Trained nurses showed significant improvements in general clinical skills, critical thinking, and ethics compared to untrained nurses. Patients cared for by trained nurses also demonstrated improved quality of life and higher family caregiver satisfaction. Conclusion: Structured training improves nursing competence, patient quality of life, and family caregiver satisfaction.
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