Rural community-based nurses' self-reported knowledge and skills in the provision of psychosocial care to palliative and end-of-life clients and carers.

Our study found rural nurses were confident in their knowledge and skills in the majority of psychosocial care. As generalist nurses make up the majority of the rural nursing workforce, further research should be undertaken on what educational strategies are needed to support and upskill rural community-based nurses to undertake formal training in palliative care.