Review Article
Nursing Education in Palliative Care in Iran
Jeannine Brant1 and Michael Silbermann2*
1Billings Clinic, Inpatient Cancer Center, Billings, MT, USA
2The Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC), Israel Institute of Technology and Haifa, Israel
- *Corresponding Author:
- Michael Silbermann
DMD, PhD, The Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC)
Israel Institute of Technology and Haifa, Israel
Tel: 972-505606335
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E-mail: cancer@mecc-research.com
Received date: August 10, 2015 Accepted date: September 03, 2015 Published date: September 07, 2015
Citation: Brant J, Silbermann M (2015) Perspectives on the Role of Nurses in Contemporary Palliative Care Practice: The Middle East as Example for the Developing World. J Palliat Care Med S4:002. doi:10.4172/2165-7386.1000S4002
Copyright: © 2015 Brant J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Palliative care is a holistic approach concerned with the physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of the patients and their families. Healthcare providers should receive special training in order to be able to provide optimal palliative care. Given the increasing prevalence of incurable diseases requiring palliative care across the world, training nurses to provide palliative care to patients is a global priority. Nurses constitute one of the main pillars of a palliative care team. Given its relatively long history of training nurses at different levels, palliative care training is still at its infancy in Iran. The present study was conducted to assess the status of nursing education in palliative care in Iran and attempts to also describe the challenges and barriers against teaching palliative care and the activities and achievements of recent years in this area. Despite the slow progress of palliative care in nursing, the recent measures taken provide a promising outlook for nursing education in palliative care in Iran.
