Background: Building palliative care capacity among all healthcare practitioners caring for
patients with chronic illnesses, who do not work in specialist palliative care services (non …

Context Symptom management is a priority area within palliative care core competencies for
generalist providers. Although several educational initiatives exist, a comprehensive …

Context Central to appropriate palliative care management in hospital settings is ensuring
an adequately trained workforce. In order to achieve optimum palliative care delivery, it is …

Background: Recent international documents have highlighted the importance of preparing
the nursing workforce for end of life care. However, these documents do not make clear what …

Background: Literature for preparing hospice nurses to deliver end-of-life care is sparse.
Aim: To investigate how nurses in one UK hospice prepared to deliver end-of-life care in …

ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of a
palliative care self-efficacy instrument developed for intellectual and developmental …

Background An integrated care network between emergency, specialized and primary care
services can prevent repeated hospitalizations and the institutionalized death of terminally ill …

Objective To assess the impact after 20 years of a Master's degree in palliative care (MsPC)
on the participants' educational outcomes in terms of educational needs satisfaction …

L'autovalutazione delle competenze professionali rappresenta un fattore cardine in ambito
organizzativo. Per colmare il gap tra la competenza percepita e quella auspicata, vi è …

Background: Ageing populations with associated chronic illnesses and multi-morbidity will
lead to a rapidly escalating need for all levels of palliative care provision. This will place …