Nursing Resources

This resource provides both a culturally sensitive and spiritually sensitive guide aimed at providing health care staff with the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to care for an increasingly diverse patient population. The text provides the reader with succinct descriptions of beliefs and practices that may be practiced by persons from various cultures or religious groups.

Topic: Compassionate Care, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Format: Other
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Practicing Nurses

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This publication describes a sentinel event of a racist comment from a family member about diverse staff during a palliative care consult. The case study provides a vivid description of the event. The authors emphasize that the lack of support expressed by the white staff was as egregious as the comments that were made about members of the team who came from diverse backgrounds.

Topic: Communication, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Ethics
Format: Article
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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Care Dimensions offers a free webinar series on various topics related to serious illness care that rotates throughout the year, including contact hours and continuing education credits for nurses, social workers, and certified case managers.

Topic: Communication, Compassionate Care
Format: Other, Video
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Practicing Nurses

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This article frames the role of palliative care nurses in promoting health equity in the context the future of nursing report. It provides strategies to help palliative nurses provide more equitable palliative care.

Topic: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Social Determinants of Health
Format: Article
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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This website includes tools and resources for patients, clinicians, and health systems that support more, better, and earlier conversations between seriously ill patients and their clinicians about their goals, values and priorities.

Topic: Communication, Evidence-Based Practice
Format: Website
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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This resource provides a summation of conference that was held in 1992. The focus of the conference was the thirteenth anniversary of an article in Life magazine, “They decide who lives, who dies.” The article provides a brief history behind some of the ethical decisions in end-of-life. The resource provides a rich foundation in ethics in end-of-life.

Topic: Ethics, Health Policy
Format: Article
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Practicing Nurses

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Free consumer-facing guides to help people share their wishes for care through the end of life. Includes conversation starter kits, information for health care proxies, talking to your health care team, and identifying what matters to you.

 

Topic: Communication, Compassionate Care
Format: Website
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Practicing Nurses

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A broad, comprehensive overview of palliative care which provides a brief history, clinical trials that support the use of palliative care, the future of palliative care, models that work, cost, and barriers to expanded use of palliative care.

Topic: Evidence-Based Practice, Health Policy
Format: Article
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level

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A free video with Dr. Diane E. Meier from the Center to Advance Palliative Care with 10 practical suggestions about having serious illness conversations, including room set up and how to conduct the meeting.

Topic: Communication, Compassionate Care
Format: Video
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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This guide and toolkit is part of the briefs on women and girls with disabilities series published by the UN Women and United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is a practical guide for program/policy development on intersectionality in addressing structural barriers and inequity.

Topic: Communication, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Ethics, Health Policy, Social Determinants of Health
Format: Other
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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This 43 minute Lancet podcast discusses Lancet’s 2022 commission report, The Value of Death. There is also a 6 minute video. The report outlines principles to achieve radical change across death systems and the next steps that communities can take. The goal is to recognize death and dying as not only normal but valuable.

Topic: Clinical Judgement, Communication, Compassionate Care, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Ethics, Evidence-Based Practice, Health Policy, Social Determinants of Health
Format: Other, Video
Audience: Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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This is a practical two-page clinical decision guide for tube feeding. It answers basic questions for patients and health decision makers on the decision about a long-term feeding tube.

Topic: Clinical Judgement, Communication, Compassionate Care, Evidence-Based Practice
Format: Other
Audience: Associates Level, Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Practicing Nurses

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In this article, Lippe et al. revise the CARES and G-CARES statements and provide guidance for faculty in implementation of the AACN Essentials related to the hospice/palliative/supportive care sphere.

Topic: Clinical Judgement, Communication, Compassionate Care, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Ethics, Evidence-Based Practice, Health Policy, Social Determinants of Health
Format: Article
Audience: Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty

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VitalTalk makes communication skills for serious illness learnable through short webinars and education content. Their evidence-based trainings focus on communications skills to empower clinicians and institutions, with several course options.

Topic: Communication
Format: Video
Audience: Baccalaureate Level, Graduate Level, Nursing Faculty, Practicing Nurses

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