Strengthening Undergraduate Palliative Nursing Education Through Interprofessional Collaboration and Community Partnerships

BACKGROUND: outlining revised primary palliative care competencies, new graduates continue to report insufficient preparation in these competencies. METHOD: A quasi-nonexperimental design with a purposeful sample of prelicensure nursing students was utilized. An interprofessional multimodal teaching approach was implemented to deliver the course content. RESULTS: = 1.34]). CARES PC 2.0 results showed improved interprofessional communication, with "strongly agree" responses increasing from 27% preintervention to 71% postintervention. CONCLUSION: Survey data and student reflections demonstrated improved understanding of goals of care and quality-of-life support. Findings support integrating palliative care competencies throughout undergraduate nursing curricula.