Abstract
Purpose
Competency-based assessment helps to improve performance and to standardize education programs for hospice and palliative care professionals. This paper aims to report the process and results of develo** the hospice and palliative care competencies by multidisciplinary experts in Korea.
Methods
The competency development task force team of Korean hospice and palliative care professionals was comprised of seven physicians, four nurses, two social workers, and two clergy. To build consensus regarding competencies, the team performed a two-round Delphi survey. The importance of competency domains was assessed by using a 5-point Likert scale. After the completion of the Delphi survey, final competency domains were decided in a consensus meeting.
Results
The competencies were composed of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The competency domains were identified as the following: 11 domains and 16 subdomains for physicians, 11 domains for nurses, 5 domains and 15 subdomains for social workers, as well as 3 domains and 5 subdomains for spiritual care providers. The high importance domains were different by specialties. Physical care and treatment for physicians, symptom management for nurses, bereavement care for social workers, and communication for spiritual care providers were ranked as highly important. For nurses and spiritual care providers, attitude-related domains were ranked the highest in importance.
Conclusion
The competencies developed by multidisciplinary professionals are useful to identify the appropriate roles of each hospice and palliative care specialist involved in a team approach to patient care.
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The authors would like to thank all members of Delphi panel and many multidisciplinary members of the Korean Society of Hospice & Palliative Care who help to develop the competencies. This work was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Center of Korea.
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Kang, J., Kim, Y., Yoo, Y.S. et al. Develo** competencies for multidisciplinary hospice and palliative care professionals in Korea. Support Care Cancer 21, 2707–2717 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-013-1850-3
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