TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimizing the Global Nursing Workforce to Ensure Universal Palliative Care Access and Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering Worldwide
AU - Rosa, William E.
AU - Parekh de Campos, Amisha
AU - Abedini, Nauzley C.
AU - Gray, Tamryn F.
AU - Huijer, Huda Abu Saad
AU - Bhadelia, Afsan
AU - Boit, Juli Mc Gowan
AU - Byiringiro, Samuel
AU - Crisp, Nigel
AU - Dahlin, Constance
AU - Davidson, Patricia M.
AU - Davis, Sheila
AU - De Lima, Liliana
AU - Farmer, Paul E.
AU - Ferrell, Betty R.
AU - Hategekimana, Vedaste
AU - Karanja, Viola
AU - Knaul, Felicia Marie
AU - Kpoeh, Julius D.N.
AU - Lusaka, Joseph
AU - Matula, Samuel T.
AU - McMahon, Cory
AU - Meghani, Salimah H.
AU - Moreland, Patricia J.
AU - Ntizimira, Christian
AU - Radbruch, Lukas
AU - Rajagopal, M. R.
AU - Downing, Julia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Context: Palliative care access is fundamental to the highest attainable standard of health and a core component of universal health coverage. Forging universal palliative care access is insurmountable without strategically optimizing the nursing workforce and integrating palliative nursing into health systems at all levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored both the critical need for accessible palliative care to alleviate serious health-related suffering and the key role of nurses to achieve this goal. Objectives: 1) Summarize palliative nursing contributions to the expansion of palliative care access; 2) identify emerging nursing roles in alignment with global palliative care recommendations and policy agendas; 3) promote nursing leadership development to enhance universal access to palliative care services. Methods: Empirical and policy literature review; best practice models; recommendations to optimize the palliative nursing workforce. Results: Nurses working across settings provide a considerable untapped resource that can be leveraged to advance palliative care access and palliative care program development. Best practice models demonstrate promising approaches and outcomes related to education and training, policy and advocacy, and academic-practice partnerships. Conclusion: An estimated 28 million nurses account for 59% of the international healthcare workforce and deliver up to 90% of primary health services. It has been well-documented that nurses are often the first or only healthcare provider available in many parts of the world. Strategic investments in international and interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as policy changes and the safe expansion of high-quality nursing care, can optimize the efforts of the global nursing workforce to mitigate serious health-related suffering.
AB - Context: Palliative care access is fundamental to the highest attainable standard of health and a core component of universal health coverage. Forging universal palliative care access is insurmountable without strategically optimizing the nursing workforce and integrating palliative nursing into health systems at all levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored both the critical need for accessible palliative care to alleviate serious health-related suffering and the key role of nurses to achieve this goal. Objectives: 1) Summarize palliative nursing contributions to the expansion of palliative care access; 2) identify emerging nursing roles in alignment with global palliative care recommendations and policy agendas; 3) promote nursing leadership development to enhance universal access to palliative care services. Methods: Empirical and policy literature review; best practice models; recommendations to optimize the palliative nursing workforce. Results: Nurses working across settings provide a considerable untapped resource that can be leveraged to advance palliative care access and palliative care program development. Best practice models demonstrate promising approaches and outcomes related to education and training, policy and advocacy, and academic-practice partnerships. Conclusion: An estimated 28 million nurses account for 59% of the international healthcare workforce and deliver up to 90% of primary health services. It has been well-documented that nurses are often the first or only healthcare provider available in many parts of the world. Strategic investments in international and interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as policy changes and the safe expansion of high-quality nursing care, can optimize the efforts of the global nursing workforce to mitigate serious health-related suffering.
KW - Palliative care
KW - global health
KW - global palliative care
KW - nursing
KW - palliative nursing
KW - serious health-related suffering
KW - universal health coverage
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.07.014
DO - 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.07.014
M3 - Article
C2 - 34332044
AN - SCOPUS:85116849332
SN - 0885-3924
VL - 63
SP - e224-e236
JO - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
JF - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
IS - 2
ER -