Performance-based palliative care in the nursing home: closing the gap between "knowing" and "practicing".
This study evaluated the impact of an experiential educational model--combining traditional didactic techniques with applied performance-based methods--on changing nursing home staff attitudes and knowledge about palliative care, and effectuating positive changes in practice outcomes such that the delivery of palliative care is moved "upstream" in the disease/treatment trajectory. Two nursing homes participated.
Kyriacou
Corinne Kay
CK
Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Brooklyn, New York 11220, USA. ckay@mjhs.org
Nidetz
Allison
A
D004496:Education, Continuing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team