nurses committed to training and the professional recognition to provide quality care to patients and families at the end of life.
Valencia now hosts 10 and 11 March the IV National Conference of nursing in palliative care with 300 participants.
the emotional aspects and the nutritional support at the end of life, are some of the major issues to deal with.
valencia, March 2011.-Palliative care represent a better quality in the attention given to the sick at the end of life. The nursing staff and continuous training are key to this assistance. With this philosophy, Valencia hosts the IV National Conference of nursing in palliative care today and tomorrow, in the Hotel Ayre Astoria Palace of Valencia.
about 300 professionals will meet with the common goal of meet and exchange experiences and views on the daily work with patients and their families. The motto of ‘ together until the end ’, the Spanish Association of nurses in palliative care (AECPAL) organizes these days to make progress in an area of care such as the targeted to improve or maintain the highest possible quality of life in patients in advanced or terminal disease situationthrough the alleviation of suffering, the exquisite communication and support for the family.
approximately 250,000 people each year require palliative care to relieve symptoms and improve the quality of life due to advanced illness or terminally. Next to them there is at least 500,000 caregivers, to suffer with as much or greater intensity than the own sick. In this sense, the AECPAL wants to contribute from the training and updating of knowledge to the well-being and the quality of the patients in the last phase of his life.
therefore the themes of the fourth Conference focuses on very important aspects at the end of life such as the emotional, the standards of palliative care nursing, intervention nursing in palliative care nutritional support, the specific interventions of nurses in the process of agony and topical as it is the prescripció(n) nurse. Also, the meeting will serve to analyse the work of the AECPAL lines, currently focused on three groups: research, skills and plans of care.
the scientific programme is structured in five panels, two conferences and workshops, as well as four tables of communications and an exhibition of posters.
the scientific program starts today with a pre-Conference course on bioethics in palliative care, which will be addressed in two presentations: dignity, autonomy and charitable ”, and on the other hand, limitation of the therapeutic effort. Difference between futility and therapeutic obduracy ”. The morning session will end with a practical envelope case ethical issues in nutrition and hydration at the end of life ”.
the opening hours will take place today at 4 p.m. with the lecture entitled facilitating the grieving process: before and after the death ”, carried out by Professor of Psychology at the University of Valencia, Pilar Barreto. After his speech will be a Panel on intervention nursing in palliative care nutritional support ”. The first day will conclude with a panel of communications and workshops practical.
Tomorrow morning the program includes three round tables on standards of palliative care nursing ”, specific interventions of nurses in the process of agony team ” and lines of work and new proposed 2011-2012 of the Spanish Association of nurses in palliative care ”. Another table of communication, and at the end of the same will then take place workshops.
in the second part of the afternoon, will take place the table entitled from case management to intervention in the complexity in palliative care nurse ”. Finally, the Conference will have the Conference on new challenges: prescribing nurse in palliative care. Experience in Andalusia ” and will be submitted next AECPAL Conference headquarters will be in Barcelona (April 2013).
