Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted The Impact of Paediatric Palliative Care Education on Undergraduate Nursing Student’s Readiness for Clinical Practice: A Systematic Literature Review(Saudi Digital Library, 2026) ALOLAYAN, MODHI; Wilkie, SusieBackground: Paediatric palliative care (PPC) is an essential component of high-quality, child- and family-centred healthcare for children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Nurses play a central role in delivering PPC across diverse clinical settings; however, evidence suggests that undergraduate nursing students often feel inadequately prepared to manage the clinical, communicative, and emotional demands of such care. Despite increasing international emphasis on integrating palliative care into undergraduate education, the extent to which PPC education prepares nursing students for clinical practice remains unclear. Objectives: This systematic literature review aimed to examine the impact and effectiveness of PPC education in preparing undergraduate nursing students for clinical practice. Specific objectives were to evaluate the effects of PPC education on students’ knowledge, skills, confidence, and readiness for practice; to identify educational approaches used to deliver PPC content; and to explore barriers and facilitators influencing implementation. Search Strategy: A systematic search was conducted across CINAHL, MEDLINE, ERIC, PsycINFO, Embase, and Scopus using a Population Exposure–Outcome (PEO) framework. Studies published in English between 2015 and 2025 were considered. Study selection followed the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Methodological quality was appraised using Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools, and data were synthesised narratively. Results: Ten empirical studies met the inclusion criteria, comprising quasi experimental, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs. PPC education was consistently associated with improvements in nursing students’ knowledge, confidence, communication skills, and emotional preparedness. Experiential learning approaches, including simulation, interprofessional education (IPE), and reflective or drama-based methods, were particularly effective in supporting clinical readiness. However, heterogeneity in study design, outcome measures, and reliance on self-reported data limited generalisability. Conclusion: This review concludes that undergraduate nursing students benefit from early, structured, and experiential exposure to PPC education. Integrating PPC longitudinally within undergraduate curricula may enhance students’ preparedness for clinical practice and support the delivery of safe, compassionate paediatric palliative care. Further high-quality, multi-site research is required to evaluate long-term clinical outcomes.6 0Item Restricted Medication Safety Education in Undergraduate Pharmacy and Nursing Schools in the UK and Saudi Arabia(Imperial College London, 2023) Albadali, Hind; Woloshynowych, Maria; Franklin, BryonyIntroduction: This thesis focused on medication and patient safety from a global perspective (UK and Saudi Arabia), the rationale being the increase in medication error incidents resulting from a lack of proper patient safety education in nursing and pharmacy programmes which contribute to serious patient safety issues. Literature revealed the limitations on achieving positive outcomes in nursing and pharmacy education. Aim: to identify current medication and patient safety education in these countries and to analyse factors affecting adequate teaching and recommendations for improvement. Research Methodology: A systematic narrative review and mixed method research design were used to investigate many educational issues. Data Collection: used literature search for published papers, document review, semi-structured individual interviews and focus group for qualitative data and a questionnaire for quantitative data. Data Analysis: used systematic narrative analysis, thematic analysis and various statistical techniques to analyse data (separate data review for pharmacy and nursing). Results: revealed a disagreement on the explicitness and mode of integration, diverse content delivery, many educational didactic and interactive methods, a growing interest in simulation methods, the inter-professional learning method, curriculum guides and educational framework were rarely used and obstacles to integrating medication safety were identified. Furthermore, students’ confidence in learning about patient safety domains between classroom and clinical settings differed. Conclusion: Although medication and patient safety education is well received, strategies are needed to improve medication and patient safety education to allow for effective integration in the curriculum. UK and Saudi Arabian educational and health sector policymakers should prioritise improving medication and patient safety education. Recommendations: Future researches should investigate the content, methods of delivering medication and patient safety education, curriculum guides, framework for teaching and factors that prevent the effective integration of medication safety education. Students’ confidence in patient safety topics in classroom and clinical settings needs evaluation.20 0