La Nursing training in end-of-life care at Spanish universities

Abstract

There are specific competencies that a nurse must develop and master in order to provide quality care to the patients they serve. Not only in the field of care in general but in particular in care at the end of their lives. These skills must be learnt with adequate basic academic training, which will allow mastery in these areas and thus provide the best quality of care for patients and their families. In this article, we briefly approach the daily and regular care developed when caring for patients at the end of their lives and the level of knowledge imparted to nursing students in the undergraduate studies currently existing in Spain, in particular the subjects related to care at the end of life in these universities. We also compare the data on the situation in our country five years ago and at present, to see what progress has been made, in addition to examining the quantity and quality of such knowledge and the training provided in our country.