Description:
This lecture is an overview of the need to improve palliative care and the role of the nurse as a member of an interdisciplinary team in providing quality care. Basic principles of palliative care are presented within a quality of life framework.

Objectives:

• Describe the role of the nurse in providing quality palliative care for patients across the lifespan
• Summarize changes in population demographics, health care economics, and service delivery that necessitate improved professional preparation for palliative care
• Describe the philosophy and principles of hospice and palliative care that can be integrated across settings to effect quality care at the end of life.
• Discuss aspects of assessing physiological, psychological, spiritual, and social domains of quality of life for patients and families facing a life-threatening illness or event
  

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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