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Interprofessional Collaboration Competencies Of Nursing Students, Nurse Practitioner Students, And Paramedics In A Simulated Palliative Home Care Setting: A Pilot Study, Caroline Gibbons, Véronique Landry, Stéphanie Boudreau

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Background: Post-secondary institutions do not adequately prepare future professionals to provide quality palliative care. Furthermore, the competencies necessary for interprofessional collaborative practice in home-based palliative care are poorly described in the scientific literature. A palliative care simulation involving standardized patients and paramedics would be a strategy to educate nursing students and nurse practitioner students who have little opportunity to experience interprofessional collaborative palliative care in the home.

Objective: Describe the interprofessional competencies of nursing students, nurse practitioner students, and paramedics during a home-based palliative care simulation according to a National Competency Framework.

Method: This pilot study is qualitative descriptive. Six …