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Palliative Care. Workforce Development

Palliative care is delivered in almost all settings where healthcare is provided, including neonatal units, paediatric services, acute hospitals, general practices, community settings and aged care services. People who are dying have needs which…

Tags: 2016, Ash K, Australia, Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, Clinical Competence, Continuing, Education, Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing/ed [Education], Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing/ma [Manpower], Humans, March 2018 List, Nursing, Yates P

Advancing social work practice in end-of-life care

Insufficient training of health professionals has often been cited as a major barrier to improving the system of care for dying patients and for the bereaved. Although specific problems have been identified for physicians and nurses, the problems of…

Tags: 1999, Backlog, Bereavement, Christ GH, Continuing, Education, Focus Groups, Health Care Surveys, Humans, Journal Article, New Jersey, New York City, Palliative Care, Social Work in Health Care, Social Work/education, Sormanti M, Terminal Care, United States

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The attitudes of neonatal professionals towards end-of-life decision-making for dying infants in Taiwan

The purposes of research were to describe the neonatal clinicians' personal views and attitudes on neonatal ethical decision-making, to identify factors that might affect these attitudes and to compare the attitudes between neonatal physicians and…

[Pediatric palliative care: A national survey of French pediatric residents' knowledge, education, and clinical experience]

BACKGROUND: The need for educational training of healthcare professionals in palliative care is an important issue. Training and practice of pediatric residents in the field of pediatric palliative care (PPC) has never been assessed, although the…

Tags: 2014, Archives de Pediatrie, Backlog, Continuing, Education, Journal Article, Lefeubvre C, Medical, professional issues, Schell M, Viallard ML

Treatment of pain in pediatric oncology: a Swedish nationwide survey

Pain treatment is a crucial aspect in the care of children with cancer and there are many studies demonstrating inefficient pain treatment. In this study, questionnaires dealing with pain treatment of children with malignant diseases were sent to all…

Chronic abdominal pain in children: an update

Despite the fact that chronic abdominal pain is a common complaint in children and adolescents, the complexity of this condition only recently has begun to be understood. This article summarizes new advances in the diagnosis, conceptualization, and…

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