Qualitative research of nurses' attitude about palliative care and its influence factors

Objective To know the attitude about palliative care and its influence factors in nurses.Methods Interviewed 8 nurses deeply by qualitative research to know their attitude about pallia-tive care.Results 4 theme,including 9 subtheme were found: nurses' negative emotion caused by job; imperfect of special organization and criterion; characteristics of nursing work.Conclusions Hospital managers should enhance training of nurses' coping capacity with bad feelings, death education and culti-vation of empathy; improve medicare system;develop palliative care routine ; establish palliative care orga-nizations, and relieve nurses' job burden and increase wages. Key words: Palliative care;  Nurse;  Attitude;  Qualitative research