5 UC Medical Centers to Add Palliative Care to ICUs

Five University of California medical centers — in Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco — will be training nurses to integrate palliative care methods into intensive care unit protocols, thanks to a grant from the University of California, according to a report from Nurse.com.

 The $1 million program will train 600 nurses over two years. The program has received positive feedback after its first workshop in April, held at UCSF, during which nurses learned about their role in palliative care, how to use empathy as a communicative tool and how to be an effective liaison between physicians and patients' families.

Palliative care is a growing service line in the United States, with 1,635 hospital palliative care teams stationed across the country, according to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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