Effectiveness of Palliative Care Training and Its Impact on Experiential Learning

The nursing education often lack or little exposure to palliative care in undergraduate studies. In Pakistan, conventional teaching methods in Nursing have been dominating all over. In which students have little or no exposure of dying patients in clinical setting. Therefore, it is vital to explore new innovate approaches for palliative care education. The skill of nursing students influenced either positive or negative due to their educational method during training. In Pakistan conventional methods are dominant in nursing education. However, conventional methods are inadequate to impart practical knowledge among students. Previously, many studies reported interactive methods are dominant over the traditional methods to enhance competency and eventually employment opportunities. Hence, the ultimate goal of this study will be to see the effectiveness of palliative care training program among senior student nurses and its impact in experiential learning in nursing education. That will give the student nurses an opportunity to augment their proficiencies and improve knowledge in an innocuous environment. Eventually, the study will describe the strategies for effective learning and its impact on experiential leaning in nursing education. This study will investigate the effectiveness of palliative care training and its impact on senior nursing student's experiential learning. The study will compare training through two different approaches a 2-step traditional approach and a 5-step pedagogy method and its impact on experiential learning. The experiential learning will be measured through the knowledge, competency and self-efficacy in palliative care as pre and post intervention using a single blind randomized controlled trial. The study may contribute in providing evidence of the efficacy of palliative care training in a resource limited setting. The study will contribute essentially in nursing education by investigating two different approaches and their effect on experiential learning.