Evaluation of educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents in England

Long, T; Hale, C; Sanderson, L; Tomlinson, P; Carr, K

Abstract

This paper reports the findings of a study which was carried out to evaluate the
educational preparation of cancer and palliative care nurses in England. The study was
carried out in three stages and covered the following areas; documentary analysis of
curriculae, assessment of practice, patients and professionals views of threshold and
expert practice. The findings suggested that although there was widespread compliance
with a national standard for cancer nursing, this was not the case for palliative care
nursing. There was uncertainty about what should be assessed in practice and ambiguity
about what was actually assessed. Partnership with children and their parents, clinical
skills, multi-disciplinary working, and personal attributes were the main foci for
expectations of threshold practice but an expert panel had difficulty in describing the
attributes of higher level practice. The paper also describes how some of recommendations
from the study are being taken forward in current policy and practice.

Citation

Long, T., Hale, C., Sanderson, L., Tomlinson, P., & Carr, K. (2008). Evaluation of educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents in England. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 12(1), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2007.05.003

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: May 9, 2011
• Journal: European Journal of Oncology Nursing
• Print ISSN: 1462-3889
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 65-74
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2007.05.003
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2007.05.003