Empowering Nurses through End-of-Life Nursing Education in Asia: Nurses as Advocates for Patients’ Dignity

No other health‐care professional spends more time with patients at the end‐of‐life stage than the nurse, who is responsible for assessing and supporting patients’ physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Therefore, nurses are expected to provide quality palliative/end‐of‐life care that maintains the dignity and improves the quality of life (QOL) of patients who are entering the last chapter of their lives. However, nurses can only practice what they know. In this article, I explore the ways of empowering nurses in Asian countries through culturally appropriate palliative nursing education, which would contribute to the common nursing goal of advocating patient dignity for patients with cancer and enabling them to have peace of mind until their last moment.