In the ever-changing state of healthcare, the request for skilled and compassionate care in palliative and hospice settings has reached an all-time high. Registered nurses (RNs) are on the frontline ...

Palliative care, specialized medical care focusing on providing relief from the symptoms—including pain—and the stress of serious illness, is underutilized in nursing homes, despite the large number ...

Future family nurse practitioner Parag Raychoudhury considers her college’s emphasis on palliative care training as essential. “Palliative care isn’t just about death and dying,” she said. “Any ...

Nursing students in Hertfordshire are set to benefit from end-of-life-care training in advance of their first placements, under a pioneering education initiative. An innovative end-of-life-care ...

Palliative care—which focuses on providing seriously ill persons with relief from symptoms, pain, and illness-related stress—is already a desperately needed resource in the United States, and experts ...

Diane E. Meier ( [email protected]) is a professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City. Betty Lim is an assistant professor of geriatrics and ...

Palliative care education and professional development encompass the structured teaching, training and ongoing support necessary to prepare healthcare providers for the complex needs of patients with ...

A lack of end-of-life training may leave certified nurse assistants unprepared to work with patients receiving palliative or hospice care, but nursing homes must do more to cross-train and build their ...

Says Ewa Skowronska, CEO of the HPCA: “The South African government was a co-sponsor of the World Health Assembly resolution on ‘strengthening of palliative care as a component of integrated treatment ...

Many patients nearing the end of their lives are not receiving the care and support they need because of a lack of training for health professionals, including nurses, a new report has warned. In ...

A few years ago, when second-year School of Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh was working as a nurse on a general surgery unit in South Korea, she was struck by the feeling that many patients weren't ...