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A panel of national pediatric palliative care experts validated and rated educational subcategories identified in the review in accordance to relevance and importance.</p> <p>RESULTS</p> <p>The panel of experts rated 25 of 53 sub categories with a 0.78 percent agreement in both relevance and importance. Nine of those twenty-five sub categories had 100% agreement in relevance and importance among all the experts.</p> <p>CONCLUSION</p> <p>Providing nurses with education on general, evidence based pediatric palliative care skills, identified by an interdisciplinary team of experts in the field, is critical for expanding knowledge and access to palliative care to all children in need of such care.</p>","abstract_html":"&lt;p&gt;BACKGROUND&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Each year approximately 42,000 children die and 400,000 children cope with chronic or life threatening illnesses in the U.S. Improved access to evidence based pediatric palliative care is essential to ease suffering, manage distressing symptoms and to improve quality of life.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;METHODS&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A literature review was conducted. A panel of national pediatric palliative care experts validated and rated educational subcategories identified in the review in accordance to relevance and importance.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;RESULTS&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The panel of experts rated 25 of 53 sub categories with a 0.78 percent agreement in both relevance and importance. Nine of those twenty-five sub categories had 100% agreement in relevance and importance among all the experts.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;CONCLUSION&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Providing nurses with education on general, evidence based pediatric palliative care skills, identified by an interdisciplinary team of experts in the field, is critical for expanding knowledge and access to palliative care to all children in need of such care.&lt;/p&gt;","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Hamre, Taryn J."],"institution":null,"degree_name":"Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)","degree_level":"Open Access Thesis","degree_discipline":"Yale University School of Nursing","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Ruth McCorkle"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2017,"date_issued":"2017-01-01T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2017-01-01T08:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-24T06:16:00Z","subjects":["continuing education","nursing","palliative care","pediatric"],"languages":[],"rights":[],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ysndt/1064","outbound_label":"Repository record","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Ruth McCorkle"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Hamre, Taryn J."]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Yale University School of Nursing"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Open Access Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["continuing education","nursing","palliative care","pediatric"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ysndt/1064"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["<p>BACKGROUND</p> <p>Each year approximately 42,000 children die and 400,000 children cope with chronic or life threatening illnesses in the U.S. Improved access to evidence based pediatric palliative care is essential to ease suffering, manage distressing symptoms and to improve quality of life.</p> <p>METHODS</p> <p>A literature review was conducted. A panel of national pediatric palliative care experts validated and rated educational subcategories identified in the review in accordance to relevance and importance.</p> <p>RESULTS</p> <p>The panel of experts rated 25 of 53 sub categories with a 0.78 percent agreement in both relevance and importance. 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