Kontakt 2008, 10(2):264-273 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2008.041

Education of healthcare professionals in the field of palliative careNursing

Jana Slováková
Univerzita Komenského Bratislava, Jesseniova lekárska Fakulta v Martine, Ústav ošetrovateľstva

The target of our contribution is to use an analytical method for the demonstration of the origination, development and current condition of educational programmes in countries having long-term tradition in the field of palliative care (the USA, Canada) and in countries, where the palliative care is being implemented for rather shorter periods (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic).
The development of the palliative care in every country depends on legislative, social, economical and cultural factors. In spite of this, particular countries mutually attempt to improve conditions for providing palliative care and increasing its quality. These attempts are characterized by the origination and action of different national (for example "The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization" in USA, "The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association" in Canada, "Polish Association of Palliative Care - PAPC" in Poland) and international ("The European Association of Palliative Care - EAPC, Eastern and Central Europe Palliative Care Task Force - ECEPT) organizations, which cooperate with each other and simultaneously support the development of the palliative care in countries where it is stagnating. At the present time, there is an intention throughout the world to establish in particular countries conditions, which could enhance the quality of providing palliative care, particularly due to permanent increase in the frequency of oncological diseases, civilization diseases and numbers of seniors.
According to the World Health Organization, the level of the palliative care in the country is determined by three factors, which are the state health policy, availability of medicines and treatment procedures necessary, and education. In our contribution we just consider the problems of the education in the field of palliative care in nurses and physicians as one of principal conditions for enhancing its quality.
Conclusively, we point out the realistic situation of the education in the branch of nursing and general medicine, concerning the education of nurses and physicians working in the given field, and changes, which should be implemented in association with the education in the field of the palliative care.

Keywords: palliative care; educational programmes in the field of palliative care; nurses; physicians

Received: August 22, 2008; Accepted: November 14, 2008; Prepublished online: December 17, 2008; Published: December 17, 2009  Show citation

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Slováková J. Education of healthcare professionals in the field of palliative care. Kontakt. 2008;10(2):264-273. doi: 10.32725/kont.2008.041.
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