安寧療護護理教育旨在培育出有安寧療護理念，具末期臨終照護知能，稱職且能獲得病人與家屬信任的護理人員。從護生、一般護理人員與專科護理師，依著新手到專家不同的層級循序漸進，精益求精，提供末期臨終病人及其家屬人性化之照護，答覆他們複雜多變的身、心、靈、社會照護需求。目前安寧療護護理教育有以下困境：一、學校教育對安寧療護與末期臨終照護，缺乏系統性規劃；二、教育訓練忽視舒適護理、溝通、倫理等議題；三、大部分的在職訓練僅仰賴少數專業團體的堅持及努力；四、缺乏安寧療護與末期臨終照護學理及實務兼具的師資；五、依賴模式的護理教育，僵化護生思考，延宕護理人員從新手到專家的成長機會。面對如此現況，未來應整合安寧療護服務、教育與研究的人才，採彈性教學策略，將安寧療護教育內容本土化，並且重視教育過程中個人的內化反省。如此才能培養出更多安寧療護人才，提升末期臨終照護品質。

The aim of hospice palliative education care is to train nurses in hospice philosophy, terminal care skills, nursing care competencies, and professional reliability. Student nurses, staff nurses, and ad-vanced practice nurses must be taught through a proper sequence, from novice to expert. Working together with patients and their families, nurses can educate and care for the physical, social and spiri-tual needs of terminally ill patients. Currently, problems faced in hospice palliative care education in-
clude: 1. The lack of a systematic plan focusing on hospice palliative care and terminal care in nursing schools; 2. The absence of comfort care, communications, ethics, and other relevant issues in extant
education and training; 3. The limited number of institutes that currently provide in-service training; 4. The shortage of teachers profcient in both hospice care knowledge and practice; and 5. The cur-rent overdependence on traditional nursing education models, which hinders student nurse originality and delays staff nurse growth. Faced with the present issues, self-refection, localization, and multiple
teaching strategies should be the critical developmental directions of hospice palliative education. In order to improve terminal care quality, it is also important to integrate practice, education, and re-search in order to train more hospice palliative nurses.