Empowering Nurses to Meet Challenges and Lead Palliative Care for Achieving Triple Billion Targets

Abstract

Objectives: Nurses provide care to patients in all contexts and at all stages of their lives. Their contributions are crucial to meeting global goals like Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDG) which present challenges and opportunity to improve nursing services including rehabilitation and palliative care. This study identifies challenges for empowering nurses to lead palliative care and achieve triple billion targets’. Determine reasons for challenges to empower nurses. Recommends strategies to overcome challenges in order to empower nurses to lead palliative care and achieve triple billion targets’. Materials and methods: Multiple brainstorming sessions were conducted through the Zoom platform among the three authors to ‘identify challenges for empowering nurses to lead palliative care and achieve triple billion targets’ and recommend strategies to overcome those challenges. Narrative literature review was conducted and experts’ opinions were elicited. Identified aspects were discussed in further brainstorming sessions. Result: Challenges and reasons for empowering nurses to lead palliative care and achieve triple billion targets’ were identified and strategies to overcome those challenges were recommended. Conclusion: Equitable, competent and compassionate palliative care is a primary tool to relieve serious health-related suffering. There is a pressing necessity to provide available, accessible, acceptable, quality, and cost-effective palliative nursing care. WHO proposed the triple billion targets to improve the health of billions where palliative care is an essential element that can be achieved only with proper identification of challenges and meticulous planning and implementation of strategies to overcome those challenges.

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“…Assim, as ações implementadas visando o cuidado holístico e humanizado, de natureza física, psicossocial e espiritual, foram adequadas e eficazes para a consolidação do conhecimento especializado de enfermagem em conformidade com as publicações científicas internacionais e nacionais. A literatura reforça que é importante fornecer cuidados de enfermagem paliativos acessíveis, aceitáveis, de qualidade e com boa relação custo-benefício para todos que precisarem, sempre que necessário 16 .…”

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“…Thus, the actions implemented aiming at holistic and humanized care (of a physical, psychosocial and spiritual nature) were adequate and effective for the consolidation of specialized Nursing knowledge in accordance with international and national scientific publications. The literature reinforces that it is important to provide affordable, acceptable, good quality and cost-effective Palliative Nursing Care to everyone who needs it, whenever necessary 16 .…”

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“…Los cuidados paliativos representan una oportunidad de cuidado en donde se puede favorecer la muerte tranquila, la demanda del cuidado paliativo se enfoca en mejorar precisamente todo lo que un paciente afronta ante una enfermedad terminal y el número de personas que los [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] requieren supera los 40 millones en México 8,9 . Los cuidados paliativos también deben atender la espiritualidad 10 , en ese sentido contemplando no sólo la religión o religiosidad, dado que esto sigue siendo complejo, hay aun un dilema sobre cómo se brinda el cuidado espiritual en el cuidado paliativo 6,7 .…”

“…Un estudio enfatiza en que hay una necesidad de la formación en enfermería de los cuidados paliativos con un enfoque de la calidad de vida y de identificar las necesidades espirituales 13 , además de reconocer la importancia del cuidado espiritual y la espiritualidad como dimensiones más amplias que la religiosidad 14 resultando como requisito importante al abordar una atención espiritual de calidad de cara al futuro profesional.…”