Palliative care education at the undergraduate and graduate level is necessary to improve
the competency and confidence of nurses and ultimately improve the care of patients with a …

Compassionate, competent, and holistic care is at the core of palliative care nursing.
Knowledge of primary palliative care concepts is a fundamental expectation of graduating …

End-of-life and palliative care, while not new, have become focal issues in the health arena.
The distinction between the two is often blurred. A number of initiatives have been used to …

Nurses spend more time with seriously and terminally ill patients across the continuum of
care than other health professionals, yet nursing students lack adequate palliative care …

To help nurses develop effective clinical decision-making skills, it is essential that palliative
care education includes opportunities for undergraduate and practicing nurses to develop …

The need for palliative care is growing along with a rapidly aging population. To meet this
need, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing developed palliative care …

Research has demonstrated that patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses and their
families benefit from receiving palliative care. Increasingly, however, specialty palliative care …

Background: Deficiencies in end-of-life education may explain nursing students' reports of
feeling anxious and unqualified to care for dying patients. A volunteer Palliative Care …

Background Providing care for dying people and the death of patients are stressing
situations faced by nursing students during their clinical practice. Learning about palliative …

Clinical nurses are in a crucial position to provide primary palliative care by advocating for
patients and families at the end of life, collaborating with the health care team to optimize …