title: Palliative nursing care in Spain.
abstract: This paper describes the practice of palliative nursing care in Spain. The management of palliative hospital and home care is presented. Nursing roles in the multidimentional aspects (physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual) of patient and family care are provided. Nursing participation in informing and counselling patients is evaluated, together with nursing cooperation in multidisciplinary work. Finally, this paper states the current lack of nursing education in palliative care and the recommendations for integrating palliative care into the nursing curriculum.
authors.affiliation: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. azabaleg@csc.unica.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zabalegui
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010166:Palliative Care; D013030:Spain