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OBJECTIVE: To report the experience of offering the Quality End of Life Care for All (QELCA) Programme, highlighting the distinct methodology for the training of health professionals. DEVELOPMENT: The QELCA Programme, intellectual property of St Christopher's Hospice, was offered to seven health professionals working in the hospital palliative care unit at the National Cancer Institute, between June and December 2022, with the support of Premier Institute. The programme, which originates in the UK, has been evaluated there and is currently being evaluated in Hong Kong, and is delivered in two phases: (1) a 5-day immersion programme; (2) monthly sessions of Action Learning for 6 months. Participants realised that communication between members of the multidisciplinary team, as well as between health professionals and patients/loved ones, was one of the key challenges for achieving quality of death in the hospital palliative care unit. This insight empowered them to drive forward significant changes in practice that promise to improve quality of care. CONCLUSION: The QELCA Programme enabled participants to engage in active problem-solving to promote the relief of suffering of patients and their families in end-of-life care.
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Hospice Care , Hospices , Terminal Care , Humans , Palliative Care/methods , Terminal Care/methods , Health Personnel/educationABSTRACT
Trata-se de um estudo de classificação da produção do conhecimento na enfermagem em oncologia cujos objetivos foram: identificar as publicações na enfermagem em oncologia no período de 1994 a 2004 e analisar nas publicações, os aspectos epistemológicos destacados nas temáticas focalizadas e no enquadramento teórico-metodológico adotado nos estudos. O referencial teórico-metodológico está aliado auma metodologia de categorização epistemológica para a pesquisa na enfermagem. Utilizou-se como fontesde dados três periódicos: a Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, a Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermageme Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia. Com base nos resultados, as autoras consideram que o conhecimentoproduzido, na área de enfermagem oncológica, é consistente com a complexidade e tentativas de explicaçãosobre a arte de cuidar dos clientes e com esforços de ampliar critérios e padrões assistenciais...
This is a classification study of knowledge production in Oncological Nursing. The objectives are: to identify the publications in Oncological Nursing in the period between 1994 and 2004, and to analyze in these publications the epistemological aspects highlighted in the focused themes as well asthe theoretical-methodological inclusion adopted in the studies. The theoretical-methodological reference is allied to an epistemological categorization methodology for nursing research. Three periodicals were used as data sources: the Brazilian Journal of Nursing, the Latin American Journal of Nursing andBrazilian Journal of Cancerology. Based on the results, the authors consider that the knowledge produced in oncological nursing, is consistent with the complexity and attempts to explain the art of taking care of the customers, and with efforts to extend assistance criteria and standards...
