BACKGROUND: The majority of society's deaths occur in a health care environment.
Regardless of whether a death occurs in acute care, hospice, residential aged care or …

Background Nurses play a vital role in the care of people with advanced life-limiting
illnesses, so palliative and end of life care is an essential skill nurses need to learn. Despite …

Palliative and end of life care topics have traditionally not been in nursing school curricula.
Only in recent years have these been included. The aim of this research was to determine …

This new and expanded edition is aimed directly at the learning needs of student nurses and
is unique in that context. Whilst there are many high quality books available for academic …

Over 90% of hospital beds are occupied by patients with a chronic life threatening illness
and many of these patients require palliative care. Nurses have an important role in the …

A group of year 3 undergraduate nursing students enrolled in an Oncology and Palliative
Care Course took part in a study designed to uncover if their subsequent learning had a …

Background: We wished to explore the ways in which palliative care is included in
undergraduate health services curricula in Australia and the barriers to, and opportunities …

Background: With worldwide population ageing and the increasing prevalence of chronic
conditions, government policies promoting palliative care, and evidence of disparate or even …

Greater emphasis needs to be placed on medical student palliative care education within
the Australian arena. The development of a comprehensive, relevant and practical …

Aim To synthesise the experiences of nursing students encountering patient death and
caring for patients under palliative care or at end-of-life and their families in clinical settings …