Qualification of palliative nursing assistance in the use of the subcutaneous route.

Objectives: to describe the experience of conducting workshops for teaching the subcutaneous fluid infusion therapy in palliative care patients.

Methods: experience report based on four workshops with a workload of nine hours each, addressing the teaching, implementation of the technique, and management in the use of subcutaneous fluid infusion therapy in patients in palliative care. The host institution was a private hospital, which had two care units in the state of Rio de Janeiro.