The attitude of nurses for the enhancement of palliative care in Greece

Theodosopoulou E, Konstantinou E, Toulia G, Koutsopoulou V, Chadzopulu A, Krajewska-Kułak E, Wrońska I, Tsokantaridis C, Kamba E

Purpose: The aim of this study was to estimate the attitude and knowledge of nurses for the development of palliative care in Greece. 
Material and methods: A certain questionnaire with closed questions was developed and was use as research method to collect all the necessary data to support or question the hypotheses. Eighty one nurses participated in this study. The data collected was analysed using the SPSS software.
Results: Of the 81 nurses questioned 22 (27.16%) were men and 59 (72.84%) were women. The average was 37.19±9.16 years of the working Experience was 14.83±9.02 years in different units, 34.3%. Answered that the palliative care must be specialty, 43.2% specialization and 23.5% course.
Conclusions: The majority of nurses believe that if they had working experience in different units this won’t give them the capacity to deal with patients who suffer from advanced disease.