Journal of palliative medicine
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Nurses and nursing care providers provide the most direct care to patients at end of life. Yet, evidence indicates that many feel ill-prepared for the complexity of palliative care. ⋯ Resources exist to support palliative education for nurses and nursing care providers. Furthermore, the evidence suggests good outcomes from this education. However, there is no dedicated strategy for implementing those resources. Furthermore, there is little evidence of the critical role of knowledge translation in preparing nurses and nursing care providers for evidence-informed palliative practice.
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Education, Training, and Mentorship of Caregivers of Canadians Experiencing a Life-Limiting Illness.
Research suggests that caregiver preparedness is essential to minimizing the negative impacts of caregiving. Not being prepared is associated with fear, anxiety, stress, and feelings of insufficiency/uncertainty specific to the caregiver role. ⋯ The palliative navigator approach is a key role in the education, training, and mentorship of caregivers.
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Palliative Care Matters is a national initiative designed to develop consensus on the steps that need to be taken now to ensure Canadians can access high-quality palliative care services as part of Canada's universal healthcare model. Covenant Health and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer joined with leading national health organizations to lead this initiative, resulting in a Consensus Development Conference in November 2016. Six questions were identified by experts in the field to form the basis of the conference. ⋯ Awareness of palliative care is not widespread in Canada, but support for a modest educational public health campaign is prevalent. Canadians also strongly support national palliative care standards and integration into the Canada Health Act, but simultaneously express financial concerns regarding the associated costs required. The public opinion survey results were used as part of the deliberations at the Consensus Development Conference, culminating in a consensus statement being issued to inform potential policy options and implementation plans for palliative care in Canada.
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This article outlines the development and implementation of a consensus development conference (CDC). ⋯ This article also details the background information and guiding principles on which the Palliative Care Matters initiative was formed. A Canadian Reference Working Group was formed to develop the Palliative Care Matters guiding principles into six scientific questions. The scientific articles in this supplemental issue each present evidence and expert recommendations that speak to one of the Palliative Care Matters scientific questions.
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This article details the methods used for a rapid literature review. ⋯ The current article contains the literature search strategies for both gray and academic literature, resource eligibility criteria for inclusion and exclusion, and tables and figures to outline the literature search process, and delimit the number of resource items captured at each step in the process.