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Nursing and Palliative Care

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Exemplary nursing is integral to meeting the growing demand for palliative care. Driven by population aging and the increasing burden of chronic, noncommunicable diseases, palliative nursing has never been in greater demand. Palliative nursing is committed to addressing the holistic physical, psychological, emotional, cultural, social, practical, spiritual, and informational) aspects of a person’s health and well-being (Fitch, Hosp Q. 3(4):39–46, 1999). This chapter provides an overview of the role of nursing in the context of contemporary interdisciplinary specialists and primary palliative care. It also explores the key constructs underpinning palliative nursing, the core competencies and capabilities of specialist and primary palliative nursing, and how these can be applied to provide the best evidence-based person-centered palliative care, regardless of care setting.

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  1. Palliative Care and Cancer Outcomes Centre, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Jane L. Phillips & Claudia Virdun

  2. ImPACCT: Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic care outcomes through Clinical research and Translation, Faculty of Health University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jane L. Phillips, Claudia Virdun & Claire Marshall

  3. RePaDD: Research Centre for Palliative Care Death and Dying, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Priyanka Vandersman

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    Roderick Duncan MacLeod

  2. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB-UGent End-of-Life Care Research Grou Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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  1. Palliative and Supportive Care Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Philip Larkin

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Phillips, J.L., Virdun, C., Vandersman, P., Marshall, C. (2024). Nursing and Palliative Care. In: MacLeod, R.D., Van den Block, L. (eds) Textbook of Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31738-0_43-2

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    Nursing and Palliative Care
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31738-0_43-2

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