Evaluating the Use of Standardized Patients in Teaching Spiritual Care at the End of Life

Palliative Care Educational Interventions for Prelicensure Health-Care Students: An Integrative Review

“…The final sample of 34 articles contained quantitative (n ¼ 24), [9][10][11][12][13][16][17][18][19]21,23,24,[26][27][28][29][30][31][33][34][35][36]40,41 mixed methods (n ¼ 8), 14,15,20,32,[37][38][39]42 and qualitative (n ¼ 2) 22,25 studies, of which few examined interprofessional samples (n ¼ 4). [9][10][11][12] Within the studies with interprofessional samples, 3 utilized educational interventions for medical and nursing students.…”

“…The other interprofessional study incorporated prelicensure medical students with licensed professionals from nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, and psychology. 9 Single profession studies represented medicine (n ¼ 13), 14,17,19,22,23,25,33,35,36,37,39,41,42 nursing (n ¼ 16), 13,15,16,18,20,21,24,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32]34,40 and respiratory therapy (n ¼ 1). 38 For single profession quantitative studies, most sample sizes were 100 or less (n ¼ 17).…”

Inter-Professional High Fidelity Simulation: The Way Forward for End-of-Life Care Education

“…34 Standardised patients: Standardised patients (actors) have been used as a strategy to deliver EOLC education, and their use has been found to improve students' confidence and knowledge of EOLC. 35 This strategy had also been reported to be a valuable way to practice conversations relating to death and dying before encountering patients at the end-of-life in clinical practice. 36 Multimodal methods: Multimodal (or multidimensional) methods incorporate more than one type of teaching strategy into an EOLC curriculum or EOLC course.…”

A willingness to go there: Nurses and spiritual care

“…Internationally, the delivery of spiritual care is a growing topic of interest (Cockell & McSherry, ). Spiritual care is considered important among disciplines, yet inconsistent definitions and multiple interpretations are noted (Fink, Linnard‐Palmer, Ganley, Catolico, & Phillips, ). Spirituality is defined as connectedness and wholeness to others or to a higher being, which is divine or sacred (Balboni et al., ).…”