Core Palliative Care Competencies for Undergraduate Nursing Education: International Multisite Research Using Online Nominal Group Technique.

Nurses should have appropriate education and required competencies to provide high-quality palliative care. The aim of this international multisite study was to list and evaluate core palliative care competencies that European nurses need to achieve in their education to provide palliative care. The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) was used as a data collection method.

Dance performance as a method of intervention as experienced by older persons with dementia.

Background: Previous studies have shown that dance can bring out the strength and resources of persons with dementia.

Purpose: To describe for later evaluation how older persons with dementia experience dance performances in a nursing home.

Design: Four dance performances, based on the recollections the older persons had of different seasons, were arranged in one nursing home.

Dance in mental health nursing: a hybrid concept analysis.

The aim of this concept analysis is to describe the defining attributes and consequences of the concept of dance and to define it in a mental health nursing context using hybrid concept analysis. Dance is a human resource learned from culture. Dance implies body movements, steps, expression, and interaction.