In "A Family's Perspective," four families share their experiences with pediatric palliative care and how the care they receive impacts their children and their lives. The stories highlight the benefits of pediatric palliative care and provide families’ perspectives on this type of care.
This tear-off pad is for providers to use with their patients. It offers tips, resources, and answers to common questions about palliative care to help encourage interactive discussions with patients and their families or caregivers. Each pad contains 25 patient education sheets. Each order of one box includes 65 tear pads.
This flyer provides a summary of the training mechanisms supported by NINR.
The NINR Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP) in Biobehavioral Research offers up to five years of support for nursing students who are interested in entering or currently enrolled in a PhD program.
The Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) is a one-month intensive research training program at the NIH. The SGI provides a foundation in molecular genetics for use in research and clinical practice.
The 2020 Boot Camp will explore the impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has in the evolving healthcare environment, and overall efforts to improve the quality of care for patients and families.
NINR is pleased to announce the publication of our first history book in commemoration of the Institute's 25 years at NIH. The book explores the origins of NINR, the launching of nursing science at NIH, NINR's advancement from a Center to an Institute, and how nursing science has progressed in the past quarter century.
This report looks at the trends in end-of-life and palliative care (EOL PC) research publications over the past 14 years, including information on federal research awards, funding patterns, and the contributions of public and private investments in EOL PC science.
This flyer describes the grant mechanisms currently in use by NINR including information on research grants, small business grants, research center grants, and training and career awards. The flyer also includes resources for those applying for NIH grants.
This overview offers basic things to know about end-of-life caregiving. Every caregiver’s experience is personal, but this sheet addresses some common questions, including:
This tip sheet suggests what you can think about, ask, and do to care for yourself while caring for someone nearing the end of life. Though it can be challenging, self-care is an important part of caring for others.
This tip sheet offers ideas about how to understand and plan for legal, financial, and other matters while caring for someone at the end of their life. Being prepared can help you feel more in control.
This sheet provides tips on communicating as a caregiver of someone nearing the end of life. Honest conversations can be opportunities for learning, relief, and support.
NINR's Strategic Plan seeks to harness the strengths of nursing science to power an ambitious research agenda that will meet current and future health care needs and anticipate future health challenges and priorities. The Plan is intended to not only serve as a guide for NINR research and training activities over the coming years, but also to provide a vision for nursing science for the next quarter century. Read the NINR Strategic Plan: Advancing Science, Improving Lives (complete PDF version, 3.0 MB).
This brochure provides an overview of pediatric palliative care and answers questions that parents and families may have, such as:
This resource about finding support is a 4"x9", double-sided card with sections about different types of support that families may want to access – things like sibling support, respite care and school resources.
NINR's palliative care brochure, describes a comprehensive treatment that helps reduce or eliminate the pain and other distressing symptoms of illness and medical treatments.
The at-a-glance fact sheet provides a brief overview of pediatric palliative care and answers some common questions that families may have such as: