Effect of an Educational Program on Palliative and End-of-Life Care among Nurses in Critical Care Units: A Randomized Clinical Trial

To identify the effect of an education program on nurses' education, clinical practice, and perceived competence.

A true experimental (comparative) design will be done to assess the effect of the education program on nurses knowledge, clinical practice, and perceived competence.

This study will be conducted at Al-Basrah Teaching Hospital, Al-Sader Teaching Hospital, Al-Faiha Teaching Hospital, Shifa Hospital, Al-Faw General Hospital, Al-Qurna Hospital, Al-Madina Hospital, Al-Zubair Hospital, Abi Al-Khasib Hospital, Um Qaser General Hospital, Al-Sayyab Hospital, and Al-Mawana Teaching Hospital in Al-Basrah Governorate.

Inclusion criteria include nurses who work in the critical care units, both genders, 18 years of age and above, all levels of education, and nurses who agree to participate in the study.

The participants in the intervention will be given a self-reported questionnaire before the education program, and then the participants will receive an education program to measure its effect on nurses knowledge, clinical practice, and perceived competence.

Improving nurses' education, clinical practice, perceived competence.

simple randomization In order to maintain a transparent and scientific-based randomization process, simple randomization will be used in assigning participants (nurses) to intervention (education program) and control groups, assuming that each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any group. The simple randomization procedure would involve choosing a letter from a sealed envelope that contains two letters; A and B (A would be in the intervention group and B would be in the control group). Indeed, two groups will be allocated randomly.

simple randomization In order to maintain a transparent and scientific-based randomization process, simple randomization will be used in assigning participants (nurses) to intervention (education program) and control groups, assuming that each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any group. The simple randomization procedure would involve choosing a letter from a sealed envelope that contains two letters; A and B (A would be in the intervention group and B would be in the control group). Indeed, two groups will be allocated randomly. Also, the nurses will be instructed that these lectures will be a part of continuous education.

The data will be the results of the Arabic version self-reported questionnaire to measure the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Education-Practice-Competence Triad in Intensive Care Units in both control and interventions groups.

God willing, once the article is published, the data will be available after 6 months of publication. If the article is published in a subscribed journal, the data will be available after one year because of the policy of the subscribed journals.

With academic nurses and any researcher who is interested in the data.

The data could be used after getting the permission via email. Also, users need to acknowledge the owner

Users can ask for the data and the permission via email. Mr. Ali Malik Tiryag is the corresponding author. He will be in contact with whom to ask for the data. His email is ali.malik@uobasrah.edu.iq Also, Mr. Ali Malik Tiryag works at the University of Basrah/College of Nursing. The address is Al-Basrah, Basrah, Iraq

Users can ask for the data and the permission via email. Mr. Ali Malik Tiryag is the corresponding author. He will be in contact with whom to ask for the data. His email is ali.malik@uobasrah.edu.iq