Catherine Waigwe Ruthi
Chairman of the ophthalmic nurses’ chapter in Kenya
Title: Knowledge, skills and attitudes among KMTC nurse lecturer’s on palliative care.
Biography
Biography: Catherine Waigwe Ruthi
Abstract
To assess the Knowledge, skills and attitudes among nurse lecturer’s on palliative care.
Specific objective: To determine the lecturers knowledge on palliative care, Identify the lecturer’s attitude on palliative care, Establish the type of palliative care training the lecturers have received.
Main Objectives: assess the factors influencing eye care utilization in Murang’a level five hospital eye unit.
Design: A cross-sectional quantitative study.
Setting: Kenya Medical Training College (Nairobi, Muranga& Thika).
Main outcome Measures: Lecturers Knowledge, Attitude & Skills on Palliative Care.
Results: (50%) of the nurse lecturers did not believe the concept of PC was well understood among nurse lecturers.Comparing academic qualifications and morphine use the chi- square was 0.040 which significant Comparing academic qualifications & whether suffering and physical pain are synonymous in terminally ill patients the chi square was 0.01 which is significant.79% said PC would be more effective if the nurse lecturers undertook a PC course. 54% felt PC is important in caring for terminally ill, while out of 58 only 17(29%) had training related to PC.Out of 17 lecturers 12 (70%) had undertaken a five (5) day course on pain management. One (1) 6% had a degree in PC while 4(24%) had a higher diploma in PC.
Conclusions: there is a knowledge gap among the nurse lecturers on PC concepts while their attitude towards PC is favourable.On the types of training received the study concludes that there is a big gap in the training of lecturers on PC as the majority have only undertaken a five day course on pain management