Empowering Nurses Through Comprehensive Palliative Care Education: A Student Perspective

Without consistent expectations of palliative care education, nursing programs independently decide how, and whether to, integrate palliative care content, resulting in uneven student preparedness and ambiguity in care provision expectations. It is, therefore, essential to seek out examples of palliative education being implemented and identify nursing contexts that have successfully strengthened palliative care education. The aim of this project was to identify care settings, governing bodies, or regional institutions that have standardized palliative care education and implemented palliative teaching initiatives within their nursing curricula. In doing so, local nursing institutions could use this research to identify specific strengths in organizing and implementing palliative care education from existing programs that offer comprehensive palliative care nurse training.