Public, patient and carers ’ views on palliative and end‐of‐life care in India

ConclusionsAlthough we found minimal evidence on user perspectives, nurses need to aware of those unique components of context‐specific palliative and end‐of‐life care practices in India – socioeconomic, cultural and religious factors – on their nursing encounters. Nurses need to advocate same in policy development to enable accessibility and utility of palliative and end‐of‐life care services, which are scant in India. Implications for nursing and health policyNurses can be central in gathering the contextual evidence that advocate users’ perspectives to inform further studies and national palliative care policies in India. Emerging policies in nursing education need to focus on integrating family‐centred palliative and end‐of‐life care within curricula, whereas nursing practice may promote nurse‐led community models to address the patchy palliative and end‐of‐life service provision in India.
Source: International Nursing Review - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Literature Review Source Type: research