Using NPT to Evaluate Providing PPC as ELNEC-PPC WBT for Nurses

Altoosi University College

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cardiac Anomaly; Cerebral Palsy; Batten's Disease; Cystic Fibrosis; Cancer; Muscular Dystrophy; HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Genetic: end-of-life nursing education consortium-pediatric palliative care as web based-training plus usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04461561

AltoosiUC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to explain the provision of palliative care at the end of life by the implementation of the ELNEC course, as WBT Program using the Normalization Process Theory, that focus attention on how complex interventions become routinely embedded in practice. In addition to, identify the changes implemented by the participant nurses (intervention group) in their clinical practice, after participating in WBT Program to provide Palliative Care alongside with usual care versus usual care only (control group) for children with life-limiting conditions or in the case of accidents/sudden death, at the end of life. And finally, provide findings that will assist in the interpretation of the trial results.

Enrollment: 172 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The health care centers where the intervention will be administered include 1) Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) Teaching Hospital; 2) Babylon Maternity and Children Teaching Hospital; 3) Al-Noor Hospital for Children; 4) Morgan Teaching Hospital, and 5) Babylon Oncology Center.
• The study population will be included all college nurses who completed their bachelor's degree and who have (master's or doctorate) degree in nursing sciences, that being employed for at least three months and not expected to be transferred to another unit within the study period during either morning or evening shifts and provides nursing care for both male and/or female of hospitalized patients 18 years.
• Use a computer (desktop or laptop) with access to the internet at home or work (phone line or internet access), or use a smartphone (with at least Android 6.0+ or iOS11. 0+) with internet access (Wi-Fi and/or mobile data) to join the online training course.
• Have a working email address and/or a working mobile number and have access to a computer or smartphone with internet access to complete questionnaires in a web browser.

Exclusion criteria

• Not interested.
• Not being employed for at least three months.
• Academic nurses who employed and continuing to work with other than selecting units, due to the carefully chosen only units that provide nursing care for both pediatric and adults or for pediatric, in order to achieve the study objectives.
• Enrolled in another experimental trial.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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172 participants in 2 patient groups

ELNEC-PPC WBT pluss usual care

Experimental group

Description:

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national education initiative to improve nursing education on end-of-life care. The project is administered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and City of Hope National Medical Center. The intervention group received training through the Relais Academy website

Treatment:

Genetic: end-of-life nursing education consortium-pediatric palliative care as web based-training plus usual care

Usual care only

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants nurses deliver usual care as his/her role appropriate to neonates, infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age, also to adolescents in selected unit of perinatal, neonatal, and settings which can be pediatric.