Evaluation of a community nursing initiative: palliative care.
It is estimated that one in five people over 65years old will die in a care home in the UK. These residents require palliative care that is often delivered by social and voluntary care workers. This paper aims to evaluate a palliative care programme that has been running for the past few years and is facilitated by community nurses. An anonymous questionnaire was distributed to 50 carers within four care homes who had undertaken the programme since its implementation two years ago. A total of 38questionnaires were returned giving an above-average response rate of 77% . Results showed that the majority of participants found the course very valuable and stated that it had improved their delivery of palliative care. The programme was positively evaluated and has proved to be a valuable way of improving integrated care and meeting the Scottish Government recommendations of improving the delivery of palliative care irrespective of diagnosis and care setting.
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D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012606:Scotland; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education*; D014838:Volunteers / Q000193:education*