Palliative care and end of life issues in UK pre-registration, undergraduate nursing programmes
Palliative care and end of life issues in UK pre-registration, undergraduate nursing programmes
Palliative and end of life care topics have traditionally not been in nursing school curricula. Only in recent years have these been included. The aim of this research was to determine the current status of such an emphasis in programmes in the United Kingdom (UK). A mailed survey in 2006 to the 66 undergraduate (pre-registration) nursing programmes in the UK (return rate of 79%) determined that palliative and end of life care play a significant role in these programmes. Forty-five teaching hours on average were devoted to these topics. All of the schools have some provision on palliative and end of life care, and over 95% of students participated in these courses. A nurse was usually the primary instructor, although non-nurses were sometimes used. Attitudes toward dying and death and communicating with terminally-ill patients and family members were emphasised. By highlighting dying and death in the curricula, nursing schools appeared to be giving nursing students an opportunity to face the issue of death, thus helping them to be better prepared to help their patients and their families to do so.
palliative care, end of life issues, uk nursing programmes, death and dying
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Dickinson, George E.
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Clark, David
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Sque, Magi
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February 2008
Dickinson, George E.
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Clark, David
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Sque, Magi
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Dickinson, George E., Clark, David and Sque, Magi
(2008)
Palliative care and end of life issues in UK pre-registration, undergraduate nursing programmes.
Nurse Education Today, 28 (2), .
(doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2007.03.008).
Abstract
Palliative and end of life care topics have traditionally not been in nursing school curricula. Only in recent years have these been included. The aim of this research was to determine the current status of such an emphasis in programmes in the United Kingdom (UK). A mailed survey in 2006 to the 66 undergraduate (pre-registration) nursing programmes in the UK (return rate of 79%) determined that palliative and end of life care play a significant role in these programmes. Forty-five teaching hours on average were devoted to these topics. All of the schools have some provision on palliative and end of life care, and over 95% of students participated in these courses. A nurse was usually the primary instructor, although non-nurses were sometimes used. Attitudes toward dying and death and communicating with terminally-ill patients and family members were emphasised. By highlighting dying and death in the curricula, nursing schools appeared to be giving nursing students an opportunity to face the issue of death, thus helping them to be better prepared to help their patients and their families to do so.
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Published date: February 2008
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palliative care, end of life issues, uk nursing programmes, death and dying
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45972
ISSN: 0260-6917
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