Palliative Care for Everyone: Insider Tips for Teaching Primary Palliative Care to RNs and APRNs (FR453)

Primary palliative care education is a widely embraced solution to the increasing demand for palliative care in the midst of a specialty clinician shortage. RNs and APRNs are in a unique position to incorporate palliative principles into the management of patients with serious illness. In fact, current guidelines from national organizations recommend the integration of palliative care into routine nursing practice across all specialties and practice settings. Yet formal training and education in palliative care is not uniformly integrated in undergraduate or graduate-level nursing curricula.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research