EduPal Project

Developing palliative nursing and medical education through multi-disciplinary cooperation and working life collaboration



Palliative care is an active, multidisciplinary approach, which aim is to relief suffering and improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness. The need for palliative care is increasing due to the ageing of world’s population and growing incidence of cancer and other non-communicable diseases. The availability of palliative care in Finland varies in different areas of the country, which partly is caused by insufficient education leading to low competency. All healthcare professionals should be trained to provide basics of palliative care and special training should be offered for those treating the severe cases. Nowadays universities of applied sciences and universities do not provide enough education in palliative care to nursing and medical Students.