<br/> A IMPORTÂNCIA DA CAPACITAÇÃO DOS PROFISSIONAIS DE SAÚDE NA PRESTAÇÃO DE CUIDADOS AOS DOENTES COM NECESSIDADES PALIATIVAS: Revisão Sistemática da Literatura <br/>

Abstract

Introduction: The lack of knowledge of health professionals in Palliative Care is one of the biggest barriers to patient access to this care. Therefore, increasing the education and training of professionals is considered by international organizations as a priority area for action in order to reduce one of the greatest global disparities, inequality in access to Palliative Care. The aim of this review is to assess whether the training of health care professionals in Palliative Care contributes to an increase in abilities in the approach to patients with palliative needs and to identify what types of intervention programs have been used to promote this training. Methods: A search was conducted in PubMed and EBSCOhost (CINAHL plus with full text, Medline with full text, MedicLatina and ERIC) databases from 2016- 2021. Five hundred eight were found and 6 articles were included for final review. The articles were submitted to methodological quality assessment according to the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute. Results: In all articles the professionals were submitted to specific training programmes in Palliative Care and in all of them there was an acquisition of new knowledge and skills with application in daily clinical practice. Conclusion: The training programmes contributed to the increase of new skills in the approach to the patient/family with palliative needs. Keywords: Education; Health Personnel; Palliative Care; Skills; Training