Community Hospice Nurses' Perspectives on Needs, Preferences, and Challenges Related to Caring for Children With Serious Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many of the 50 000 children who die annually are eligible for provision of community-based hospice care, yet few hospice organizations offer formal pediatric services. Population-level data demonstrate that hospice nurses lack training, experience, and comfort in caring for children, but their specific educational needs and preferences are poorly understood.

Objective

To assess the pediatric-specific training and support needs of hospice nurses caring for children in the community.

Design, setting, and participants

For this qualitative study, 41 nurses were purposively seletected from a population-level cohort of 551 hospice nurses who completed a previous mixed-methods survey; these 41 nurses participated in semistructured interviews between February and A

SUBMITTER: Porter AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491107 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature