1Assist.Prof, MScN. Nursing College-Mosul
2Instructo, MScN. Nursing College-Mosul
3Assist.Lecturer, MScN. Nursing College-Nineveh
*Corresponding Author, Nasir Muwfaq Younis, Assist. Prof, MScN. Nursing College-Mosul, E-mail: nasir.mufaq@uomosul.edu.iq
Online published on 21 March, 2022.
Patients with palliative care concerns must be admitted to the hospital because they unable to be handled at home or due to a lack of competent family care.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the QoL of patients receiving hospice care.
Throughout the study period (112–2020), the descriptive study design proved beneficial in achieving the study's aims (25-2-2021). Apossibility (simple random sample) of (N=135) patients, (47) male and (88) female from Teaching Hospitals in the Mosul city.
According to the data, nearly half of the patients (59%) had poor awareness about palliative care, Only 29 (21.5 percent) had high knowledge, while 47 (34.8 percent) had fair knowledge.
According to the study's findings, patients in Iraq are unaware of hospice care. This article stresses the importance of creating hospice care services and there is a poor quality of life with regard to hospice care.
Assess, Patients, Palliative Care, Nurses, Quality of Life
