William E Rosa1, Julia Downing2, Betty R Ferrell3, Liz Grant4, Samuel T Matula5, Shila Pandey6, Jainaba Sey-Sawo7, Mansur Sowe8, Michele Upvall9. 1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US. 2. International Children's Palliative Care Network, UK. 3. Professor and Director, Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope, Duarte. 4. Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 5. School of Nursing, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. 6. Supportive Care Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. 7. Head of Department Nursing and Reproductive Health, University of the Gambia, The Gambia. 8. Directorate of Public Health Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, The Gambia. 9. Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mutually respectful and long-term global partnerships are critical to increasing hospice and palliative care access as a key component of universal health coverage. The importance of sustained, transnational palliative care collaboration has become more urgent since the COVID-19 pandemic. AIM: To provide an overview of characteristics for successful global palliative nursing partnerships. METHOD: The authors highlight the need to adapt approaches to meet the challenges and demands of COVID-19 in both clinical and academic spaces. Exemplars of thriving global partnerships are provided, alongside palliative nursing considerations and strategies to advance and sustain them. CONCLUSION: The role of nursing to drive and enhance palliative care partnerships, especially with equitable input from low- and middle-income country stakeholders, must be leveraged to advance shared goals and reduce serious health-related suffering around the world.
BACKGROUND: Mutually respectful and long-term global partnerships are critical to increasing hospice and palliative care access as a key component of universal health coverage. The importance of sustained, transnational palliative care collaboration has become more urgent since the COVID-19 pandemic. AIM: To provide an overview of characteristics for successful global palliative nursing partnerships. METHOD: The authors highlight the need to adapt approaches to meet the challenges and demands of COVID-19 in both clinical and academic spaces. Exemplars of thriving global partnerships are provided, alongside palliative nursing considerations and strategies to advance and sustain them. CONCLUSION: The role of nursing to drive and enhance palliative care partnerships, especially with equitable input from low- and middle-income country stakeholders, must be leveraged to advance shared goals and reduce serious health-related suffering around the world.
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Global health partnerships; Palliative care; Palliative nursing
Authors: William E Rosa; Ann E Kurth; Eileen Sullivan-Marx; Judith Shamian; Holly K Shaw; Lynda L Wilson; Nigel Crisp Journal: Nurs Outlook Date: 2019-06-28 Impact factor: 3.250