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 ...

As part of the educational mission of the Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) curriculum is offered through the UAB Center for Palliative ...

Jane Turner, from charity Sue Ryder, explains why nurse training in palliative and end-of-life care is so important and how it benefits all.

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 ...

A worsening shortage of palliative care physicians is predicted over the next 14 years. One healthcare leader suggests ways to address the crisis. Diane Meier, MD, director of the Center to Advance ...

Nursing home residents could greatly benefit from expanded access to palliative care, but providers need more access to standardized tools, staff education and relationships with clinicians to make ...

Nursing students in Hertfordshire are set to benefit from end-of-life-care training in advance of their first placements, under an education initiative. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rates of end-of-life conversations and completion of advance directives increased after the intervention. The ...

A new educational framework and toolkit will be launched in the UK and Ireland this week to improve training and guidance for those providing palliative and end of life care for children to establish ...

Canada's 2016 law on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) spurred great interest in efforts to provide alternative treatments that help people cope with terminal illness. Changes in the nation's ...

Some anti-euthanasia activists see the bill as a Trojan horse that would fund training in assisted-suicide techniques. Here’s why they’re wrong. When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the ...

Most people living with life-limiting illnesses in Kenya lack access to palliative care. Globally, palliative medicine is a growing specialty that equips clinicians with the training required to ...