Problems Experienced By Healthcare Professionals Caring For Palliatıve Care Patients and Solution Suggestions

Abstract

Palliative care service is a team effort that requires a multidisciplinary approach and includes health professionals from many branches. Service is provided by a team of experienced and trained health personnel and volunteers. Problems experienced in palliative care practice; policy, education, drug availability, and barriers to practice. Health workers experience death anxiety, stress and burnout, decrease in job satisfaction, ethical problems, compassion fatigue, both because of the difficulties they face and in the process of struggling with them. The training, equipment, expectations and thoughts of the employees directly affect the quality of the service they provide. Ensuring the qualifications of employees, standardization of their training; It is important for their mastery of palliative care practices. In this way, it will be possible to increase the quality of palliative care units, increase the number of patients to be reached, and take a more active role in the health system.