ABSTRACT
Objectives:
to analyze undergraduate nursing course coordinators’ perception about nursing training in palliative care.
Methods:
a descriptive study, with a qualitative approach and thematic content analysis, carried out with coordinators of nursing courses in Higher Education Institutions in Rio Grande do Norte.
Results:
three thematic categories emerged: Nursing training in palliative care; Potentialities for teaching palliative care; and Challenges of teaching in palliative care. The coordinators described as potentialities: transversality, theoretical and practical approach, optional subject, university extensions, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary approach, and as challenges: biomedical model in health education and insufficient professor training.
Final Considerations:
palliative care teaching in the researched institutions in the nursing education process is approached in an incipient and fragmented way, and almost always without having a specific curricular component on the subject, being present as one of its contents.
Descriptors:
Palliative Care; Professional Training; Education; Nursing; Higher Education Institutions; Teaching