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Palliative Care: How to Prepare Nurses to Deliver Quality End-Of-Life Care
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Diana Dumas
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Western Governors University
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Palliative Care: How to Prepare Nurses to Deliver Quality End-Of- Life Care
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Article
White, K. R., & Coyne, P. J. (2011). Nurses' perceptions of educational gaps in delivering end-of-life care. Oncology
Nursing Forum, 38(6), 711-717. doi:10.1188/11.ONF.
711-717
Background
Information
The authors of this abstract have created a clear and concise research paper to determine if nurses feel that they are prepared to give quality end-of-life (EOL) care as compared to previous studies. The purpose statement reads “To assess end-of-life (EOL) care core competencies deemed most important with corresponding educational needs from oncology nurses and to describe the characteristics of the respondents that are associated with selection of the top-ranked core competencies.” A brief background on the evolution of palliative care and integration of palliative care into nursing curriculum is provided. Citations by other authors addressed some of the reasons why nurses, may feel unprepared or uncomfortable with EOL care.
Palliative care programs, education, and the End-of-Life NursingEducation-Consortium (ELNEC) were also reviewed. In the final paragraph of the introduction the authors present the plan to conduct repeat a study that was done by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) in 2001. The title of this abstract and the repeat ONS study made this a very interesting piece to review.
Review of the
Literature
Much of the review of the literature takes place in the “background information” section of the paper. The author’s study was a repeat of an ONS study that was done in 2001. There is a brief overview of the 2001 study, where they list the study’s sample size, methodology, and top competencies that nurses felt they were lacking