Abstract

Palliative care increases life-threatening illness patients' and families' quality of life. Early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of physical, psychosocial, and spiritual disorders lowers suffering. Patients in palliative care must be treated. End-of-life palliative care is complex and requires nurses' skills and knowledge. To assess critical care nurses' palliative care knowledge. Hail City's intensive care units, government, and private hospitals were used for the descriptive study. 295 All critical care nurses available during data collection qualify. Palliative Care Knowledge Questionnaire-Basic (PCKQ-B), (2022), aims to identify nurses' knowledge level on palliative care. 70.2% of research respondents said nurses address physical disease and refer patients to psychiatrists or other professionals for psychological care. The study indicated that the majority of respondents support cancer, chronic disease, HIV, heart failure, and life-threatening illness palliative treatment. The study gives mean and standard deviation using an independent t-test to analyze the association between participants' replies and gender-related study domains with a significant value of less than 0.05, except for palliative care requirements. Palliative care critical care nurses need personalized interventions due to moral distress. Education, interdisciplinary teamwork, and supportive policies can improve palliative care and ethical support for critical care nurses.