Contemporary medicine is divided into preventive, curative and palliative medicine. Preventive medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the measures to prevent diseases and raise awareness level through education of citizens in order to improve the living habits and the best way to protect themselves from various diseases. Curative medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of diseases, while palliative care is a new approach in our medical practice. It does not deal with the illness that the patient is suffering from, but with the conditions and symptoms that are the consequence of the disease and affect the quality of life of the patient and his family. Contemporary medicine is focused on healing and disease healing while dying is considered as a failure. Palliative care is defined not in relation to the body, age, type of disease or pathology, but rather in the assessment of the prognosis itself and the needs of the individual patient and their family. Traditionally, palliative care is viewed as the care we provide at the end of life when death is inevitable. During treatment the health care team deals with the disease and when the treatment no longer produces results, the patient and his family are left alone. Palliative care begins when classical methods of treatment are exhausted. For highquality palliative care we need a team of experts with a lot of knowledge in palliative medicine. It implies care for patients at the terminal stage of the disease. The palliative care of such a patient is important in order to improve the quality of life and provide assistance and support to his or her family, even after death, until the end of the appalling process. The availability of palliative care should be based on needs and should not be restricted to the type of disease, geographic location or socio-economic status of the patient. It should be comprehensive. It is implemented at all the levels of health care: on primary, secondary and tertiary level. Today there is a huge demand for training medical workers in palliative care because of a growing number of palliative patients who do not know their rights or the rights of their families, but due the lack of knowledge of medical personnel they are deprived of quality palliative care. The aim of this research is to show the knowledge of nurses/technicians in the specifics of palliative medical care in acute wards and palliative ward.