Hospice News June 12, 2024
Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings.
Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers.
Without widespread change, demand for palliative care in the United States is projected to outstrip the supply of the clinicians trained to provide it during the next decade. A key barrier to building that workforce is that most clinicians receive little to no exposure to those types of care during their training.
A 2018 study showed that most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life.
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