title: Palliative care in a community hospital: educating nurses to embrace this new initiative.
abstract: Palliative care, often mistaken for hospice care, improves patients' quality of life via symptom management of life-limiting illnesses. A community hospital began a palliative care team. Along with Nursing Education, this team educated a group of nurses to implement treatment modalities and offered ongoing education to prepare nurses to become certified in palliative and hospice nursing.
authors.affiliation: North Shore-LIJ huntington Hospital, Huntington, NY, USA. AKazandjian@hunthosp.org
authors.forename: Annie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kazandjian
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards