Palliative Care Education-Does It Influence Future Practice?

Bush, Tony; Shahwan-Akl, Lina

doi:10.5172/conu.2012.1461

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“…However, other studies indicate a recognition of the need to increase palliative care education in undergraduate nursing curricula [8,10] and indicate that undergraduate nursing students are often unprepared to provide end-of-life care [8]. A survey of 41 Australian universities by Hegarty et al [11], found although the content areas being taught were shared the quantity of time devoted to palliative care and the teaching and learning approaches varied across all universities leading them to conclude that exposure to end-of-life care content is limited in Australian undergraduate health service curricula.…”

Section: The Importance Of Palliative Care In Undergraduate Nursing Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wallace et al [14] indicated a substantial need to integrate content across the curriculum. Bush and Shahwan-Akl [10], reported on Australian students in an elective palliative care subject who expressed the view that palliative care should be compulsory within undergraduate nursing courses. Dobbins [15] compared the attitudes of students who undertook an elective palliative care course with those who attended a 3-hour lecture embedded in their course.…”

Section: The Importance Of Palliative Care In Undergraduate Nursing Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gillan et al [17] also describe the use of 'cinemeducation' which involves the use of feature films to engage students in thinking about grief, loss and the intention on the attitude of students toward death and those who are dying and enhanced their ability to care for the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of these people. There is also recognition of the need for skilled academics to teach into these areas and clinical placements that are specific to the practice of palliative care [10].…”

Section: Education Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This appears to be a global phenomenon revealed by studies in various countries including, India [16], Australia [10,11,17], and the United States of America [15,18]. An area of concern that is raised amongst a number of studies [11,19] is that students do not realise they are unprepared to address this area of nursing until they are in practice.…”

Section: Readiness For Dealing With Death and Dyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They do not know what they do not know. Bush and Shahwan-Akl [10] surveyed nursing students re their perceived ability in delivering end of life care after undertaking an elective course as part of their undergraduate educational program and found that they appreciated the importance of the course to their clinical practice and felt that there should be more emphasis on knowing how to nurse the palliative person.…”

Section: Readiness For Dealing With Death and Dyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Are newly graduated nurses ready to deal with death and dying? - A literature review

Deravin¹,

Anderson²,

Croxon³

2016

Nurs Palliat Care

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Objectives: This article examines the literature currently available to explore the readiness of students and new graduate nurses when faced with death and dying within the workplace.Design: This study was a systematic literature review on research articles from peer reviewed journals using the PRISMA framework.Data sources: Databases utilised in the search included EBSCOHost, Primo Search and Google Scholar.Review methods: Key search terms included new graduate nurses, life limiting illness, nursing undergraduate, nursing students, palliative care. Abstracts of these articles were reviewed to ensure that they related to new graduate and undergraduate nurse experiences with death and dying. Further interrogation of the reference lists located another 39 articles for possible inclusion. Duplicates were removed. Articles for inclusion were to be full text articles available in English and within the date range of 2009 to 2015. This left a total of 31 articles for the review.Results: From the review four key themes emerged. These were; the importance of palliative care in undergraduate nursing curricula, readiness for dealing with death and dying, the death experience for different patient populations and education strategies. Conclusions:There is an increasing emphasis on education strategies to assist with the end of life care knowledge and skills for nursing students. Simulation is seen to be a positive way to provide undergraduate education in end of life care as simulated exposure to dying patients is recognised as an effective means alleviating anxiety regarding death and the care of dying patients. While palliative care is viewed as an important aspect of undergraduate nursing education it is recognised as an area of practice that undergraduate nurses feel they are not adequately prepared for. Undergraduate education needs to incorporate skills such as having conversations and communicating effectively with patients and families experiencing end of life issues.

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Section: The Importance Of Palliative Care In Undergraduate Nursing Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Importance Of Palliative Care In Undergraduate Nursing Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Education Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Readiness For Dealing With Death and Dyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Readiness For Dealing With Death and Dyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Are newly graduated nurses ready to deal with death and dying? - A literature review

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2016

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Experiences of nursing students participating in end-of-life education programs: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis

Ruiz-Pellón

Sarabia‐Cobo

Amo-Setién

et al. 2020

Nurse Education Today

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