Hospice News October 10, 2025
A Tuscaloosa, Alabama, community hospital has begun a novel partnership offering interdisciplinary palliative care training to hundreds of nurses, clinicians and caregivers.
The supportive care clinic provides interdisciplinary palliative assessment and care to patients with advanced disease and high symptom burden, such as those with stage three and four lung cancers, advanced breast cancer and pancreatic cancer.
It will also train more than 350 fifth-semester nursing students, offering immersion in a complex and growing specialism before they enter the workforce. They will train alongside interdisciplinary teams that include patients’ medical oncologists, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists and chaplains.
“It’s an ideal situation with the palliative clinic model, where the patients are receiving that holistic assessment and working in accordance with the...
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