Presented a project of teaching of palliative care for students of the Autonomous Community of Navarre.
Presented a project of teaching of palliative care for students of the Autonomous Community of Navarre.
The initiative, aimed at students of Education secondary, is promoted by the Institute for Culture and Society and the Navarre Society of Palliative Care.
The University of Navarra has held a scientificworkshop under the degree scroll "Palliative Care in teaching secondary? Training experiences and a proposal", in which various experts have reflected on the advisability of training adolescents in this topic.
During the meeting a project of teaching of palliative care in Navarra has been presented, which has been promoted by the project ATLANTES of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra and the Navarra Society of Palliative Care (PALIAN).
"The goal is to open a discussion forum that will serve to design a regional project in the Autonomous Community, which will try to answer the initial question and collaborate in the promotion of positive attitudes towards the end of life among students, schoolmates, parents and caregivers," explains Dr. Carlos Centenero, director of the project ATLANTES and the Palliative Medicine Unit of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
According to him, when medical or nursing students learn about the contribution of palliative care, they change their professional attitude towards terminal and end-of-life patients. "We wonder what would happen in the attitudes of a young student or adolescent if we gave them the opportunity to learn about the professional solution in medicine that today we call palliative care."
A period for growth staff
"The reality of advanced and terminal illness is rarely discussed openly in modern Western societies," stresses Dr. Centeno. "The experience of palliative care, with its global and team approach to the problems of the patient and the family, has shown that it is possible to see this final period, not as a failure of the traditional healthcare system, but as a period in which there is room for growth staff and values," he says.
Carlos Lama, president of the Navarre Society of Palliative Care, and the Italian researcher Monica Beccaro, who explained the pilot experience of teaching of palliative care developed in schools in the region of Genoa, participated in the workshop . Other experiences of teaching or contact of adolescents and young people with the reality of advanced and terminal illness were also discussed.
In the meeting, organized by the project ATLANTES - human dignity, advanced illness and palliative care - of the ICS and PALIAN, the Hospital de San Juan de Dios and the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.