Assessment 1 Instructions

To promote best practice and demonstrate your understanding of the palliative care approach to nursing, develop an essay on Grief and Bereavement support for patients and/or significant others receiving palliative care. Application of the national palliative care standards and other relevant contemporary evidence-based literature will support your essay. The intended audience is for final year undergraduate nursing student or graduate nurses.

1500 words +/-10%

Suggested Structure:

Briefly describe grief and bereavement support

Define what palliative care is

Explore some principles of palliative care

Define The National Palliative Care Standards

Link one palliative care standard to grief and bereavement support

Link another palliative care standard to grief and bereavement support

Link another palliative care standard to grief and bereavement support

References (minimum 13)