title: A collaborative nursing model for advanced non-malignant disease.
abstract: This article reviews the arguments for and against specialist palliative care for patients with advanced non-malignant disease. It argues the case for a collaborative model of education to develop the skills of specialist nurses so that they can better care for such patients. A clinically based collaborative nursing model of palliative care, which has not been derived from current cancer models, has also been developed. In addition, a brief overview of the current provision of care for cancer patients is given, since it is against this background that care for patients with advanced non-malignant disease will be developed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Loftus
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006738:Hospices / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008611:Mentors; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom