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Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of this research study . a general summary of the problem under investigation, the research design and the methodology are discussed . specific conclusion and recommendation are presented in this area are identified .The aim of present study is assessing the nurses educational needs for care of terminally ill through assessment of both ethical insight about death and helpfulness nursing actions for meeting the needs of terminally patients and their families and assessment of nurses knowledge about death, grieving process and care of terminally patients . then design and implement an educational program about death and grieving process . assessment of both initial knowledge acquisitions after implemented educational program and the retained knowledge after one monthThe sample consisted of ( 87 nurses ) 42 of them nurse-interns and 45 staff nurses, the staff-nurse, 35 of them working at Shebin El-Kome teaching hospital and distributed equally ( 10 nurses ) in haemodialysis unit, intensive care unit, burn unit and 5 nurses from emergency unit pulse 10 nurses working at liver institute in the intensive care unit .An extensive literature review were conducted to design the structured questionnaire schedule to assess the nurses knowledge about death, grieving process and care of terminally ill patients and their families . also a scale adapted from Fraser and Atkins ( 1990 ) was used to identify the nurse ethical insight about the helpfulness nursing actions to meet the needs of terminally ill patients and their families. |