MUSC College of Nursing equips students with palliative care training

(Via MUSC) November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. While you may be familiar with hospice care, palliative care is a lesser-known term outside of the medical field. But with help from Kathleen Lindell, Ph.D., R.N., the Mary Swain Endowed Chair in Palliative Care Health, and Carrie Cormack, DNP, lead faculty member in palliative care education, it’s now an integral part of the curriculum at the MUSC College of Nursing.

To explain palliative care, Lindell points to the World Health Organization’s definition, which describes it as care that “improves the quality of life of patients and that of their families who are facing challenges associated with life-threatening illness, whether physical, psychological, social or spiritual.” While it’s often associated with hospice care, Lindell is quick to point out that the two are different.  Continue…