📚 EP #03: Research Snippet
💬 What if ...
you could integrate palliative care competencies, using active learning principles, into your already-crowded curriculum without any extra time on lesson planning?
🔑 Key Insight for Active Learning
Nurse educators can use the Massachusetts Nursing Task Force (MNTF) digital library to access free, peer-reviewed teaching materials around palliative care, including case studies, toolkits, and interactive websites like 'Death Over Dinner.' These are also mapped to the 2021 AACN Essentials and Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort.
🌟 Why it matters
While 77% of nursing programs feel their students are underprepared for serious illness/palliative patient care, faculty cite lack of time and money as primary barriers. This research provides a validated roadmap and ready-to-use repository to bridge that gap.
🔗 Link and Reference
Want to learn more about how it works? Link to article and citation:
- Link to the article
- Direct link to MNTF Digital Library
- LeBlanc, R., Hurley, S. L., Chan, S. H., Dahlin, C., DeSanto-Madeya, S., Flanagan, J., Morgan, J., Murphy, A., Pare, J., & Gazarian, P. K. (2025). The Massachusetts model: A roadmap for advancing serious illness care in nursing education. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 27(6), E256–E260.