Generalist Palliative Care

Generalist Palliative Care refers palliative care services provided by non-palliative care specialists, for example: ward and clinic nurses, hospitalists, ICU physicians, unit social workers, case manaagers, chaplains, etc.   A Generalist Palliative Care Initiative within hospitals and other health care settings involves two components:

• Systems change–establishing the necessary care standards and pathways, EMR templates, and quality improvement components to ensure that all patients wtih unmet palliative care needs are assessed and cared for
• Education–attitude, knowledge, skill and behaviors of core palliative domains

It is a PCNOW goal to work to improve generalist level palliative services throughout Wisconsin health care settings through education and systems change.