"Kipal, the who what how game in palliative care": An educational board game in palliative care

"Kipal, the game of who what how in palliative care" is an educational tool developed by a nurse and a doctor who are members of a mobile palliative care team at the Vienne Hospital in France. Through the creation of fictitious and evolving patient cases during the game, participating caregivers can interactively learn about various topics related to palliative care. The expected benefits are a real involvement of the learners becoming actors of their own training, the de-dramatization of palliative care in general, the identification of palliative situations and to highlight the variety of palliative care by the wealth of the available scenarios. Indeed. Kipal contains 16 short clinical situations from various specialties and an additional 46 "event" cards (that add a clinical, psychological, social, or family-linked event) and 62 "suggestion" cards (that describe human and technical resources available) that could be associated countlessly with each game of cards. This tool is designed to be used by palliative care professionals during their training sessions of non-specialized caregivers who take care of palliative care patients. In the future, variants may be developed to suit a wider audience (including pediatrics teams, nursing home teams). Funded by the Fonds pour les soins palliatifs (FPSP) and approved by the Societe francaise d'accompagnement et de soins palliatifs (SFAP), 250 Kipal games were distributed during the French congress of palliative care organized by the SFAP and the Federation francophone internationale de soins palliatifs in 2019. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.