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Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses
BACKGROUND: One of the strategies to promote the quality of palliative care in non-specialised settings is the appointment of palliative care nurse champions. It is unclear what the most effective model to implement the concept of nurse champions is and little is known about palliative care nurse ch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7893717/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33602177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-021-00726-1 |
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author | Engel, Marijanne van Zuylen, Lia van der Ark, Andrée van der Heide, Agnes |
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description | BACKGROUND: One of the strategies to promote the quality of palliative care in non-specialised settings is the appointment of palliative care nurse champions. It is unclear what the most effective model to implement the concept of nurse champions is and little is known about palliative care nurse champions’ own views on their role and responsibilities. This paper aims to describe views of palliative care nurse champions in hospitals and home care on their role, responsibilities and added value. METHODS: In 2018, a qualitative interview study was conducted with 16 palliative care nurse champions in two hospitals and four home care organisations in the southwest of the Netherlands. The framework approach was used to analyse the data. RESULTS: Most palliative care nurse champions described their role by explaining concrete tasks or activities. Most nurse champions perceive their main task as disseminating information about palliative care to colleagues. A few nurses mentioned activities aimed at raising awareness of palliative care among colleagues. Most nurses were to a limited extent involved in collaboration with the palliative care expert team. Hospital nurse champions suggested that more support from the palliative care expert team would be helpful. Most nurse champions feel little responsibility for organisational tasks and inter-organisational collaboration. Especially hospital nurses found it difficult to describe their role. CONCLUSION: The role of palliative care nurse champions in hospital and home care varies a lot and nurses have diverging views on palliative care in these settings. Comprehensively fulfilling the role of palliative care nurse champion is a challenge. Careful selection, training, support and task descriptions for nurse champions are needed to make the concept of nurse champions work in palliative care. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12904-021-00726-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-78937172021-02-22 Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses Engel, Marijanne van Zuylen, Lia van der Ark, Andrée van der Heide, Agnes BMC Palliat Care Research Article BACKGROUND: One of the strategies to promote the quality of palliative care in non-specialised settings is the appointment of palliative care nurse champions. It is unclear what the most effective model to implement the concept of nurse champions is and little is known about palliative care nurse champions’ own views on their role and responsibilities. This paper aims to describe views of palliative care nurse champions in hospitals and home care on their role, responsibilities and added value. METHODS: In 2018, a qualitative interview study was conducted with 16 palliative care nurse champions in two hospitals and four home care organisations in the southwest of the Netherlands. The framework approach was used to analyse the data. RESULTS: Most palliative care nurse champions described their role by explaining concrete tasks or activities. Most nurse champions perceive their main task as disseminating information about palliative care to colleagues. A few nurses mentioned activities aimed at raising awareness of palliative care among colleagues. Most nurses were to a limited extent involved in collaboration with the palliative care expert team. Hospital nurse champions suggested that more support from the palliative care expert team would be helpful. Most nurse champions feel little responsibility for organisational tasks and inter-organisational collaboration. Especially hospital nurses found it difficult to describe their role. CONCLUSION: The role of palliative care nurse champions in hospital and home care varies a lot and nurses have diverging views on palliative care in these settings. Comprehensively fulfilling the role of palliative care nurse champion is a challenge. Careful selection, training, support and task descriptions for nurse champions are needed to make the concept of nurse champions work in palliative care. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12904-021-00726-1. BioMed Central 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7893717/ /pubmed/33602177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-021-00726-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Engel, Marijanne van Zuylen, Lia van der Ark, Andrée van der Heide, Agnes Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
title | Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
title_full | Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
title_fullStr | Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
title_full_unstemmed | Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
title_short | Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
title_sort | palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7893717/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33602177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-021-00726-1 |
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