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Texas program offers pediatric hospice care training

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 24, 2004

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An interdisciplinary team of hospice professionals at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, the nation's largest end-of-life care provider, are among the first providers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area to successfully complete a nationally recognized certificate program in pediatric end-of-life care. The course was based on The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium project, a national program to improve end-of-life care by nurses. Topics included therapies to reduce pain; barriers to pain relief; and symptoms associated with life-threatening diseases in children. Officials are confident that this training reinforces VITAS' commitment to clinical care and their psychological and social support for children and their families. Program facilitators say there is a need for the community's terminally ill children to spend time at home while receiving appropriate pain and symptom management, and pediatric hospice care enables this arrangement.

Source: PR Newswire

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