Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses Knowledge and Attitude Toward Neonatal Palliative Care: Review of the Literature

Abstract

Aim: To review studies regarding neonatal nurses' knowledge and attitude toward neonatal palliative care (NPC). Method: The researchers searched internet sources such as Google Scholar for NPC, Nurses, Knowledge, Attitude, and Educational Intervention. Results: Subheadings identified in the literature review were Nurses Knowledge toward NPC in NICU, Nurses Attitude toward NPC in NICU, correlation between Knowledge and Attitude toward NPC in NICU, The Effect of Educational program on Nurses Knowledge and Attitude toward NPC in NICU, and the Predictors of Knowledge and Attitude toward NPC among Nurses in NICU and Barriers to NPC provision and improvement. Conclusion: There are few studies from different nations regarding NPC found nurses have an inadequate knowledge of NPC, which also reflects their attitude.

Palliative and end-of-life care practices for critically ill patients and their families in a peri-intensive care setting: A protocol for an umbrella review

“…Before writing this protocol, a scoping search of the literature on systematic reviews in ICU palliative and end-of-life care was conducted. It showed that there are published systematic reviews related to types of ICUs like burns (Ribeiro et al 2023), surgical and trauma (Newsome et al 2023), cardiac (Kim et al 2022, neonatal (Abuhammad et al 2023;Kim et al 2019), pediatric (Bennett andLeBaron 2019;Howes 2015;Short andThienprayoon 2018), geriatric (Da Fonseca et al 2012;Roczen et al 2016), and cancer (Martins et al 2017). Furthermore, there were systematic reviews related to the palliative care process in ICUs that include the consults (Grabda and Lim 2021), family meetings (Singer et al 2016), eliciting preferences (Alyami et al 2019), decision-making (Johal et al 2022Oczkowski et al 2016;Spoljar et al 2020;Visser et al 2014), and communication (Schram et al 2017;Zante and Schefold 2019).…”