PA Professional Practice IV

Catalog description

This course will focus on a variety of topics, including barriers to healthcare provision in correctional facilities and their impact on public health; violence and maltreatment as it relates to self, children, intimate partners, and elderly; management of work-related injuries and their impact on public health; and fall prevention in the elderly population as a public health initiative. Illnesses and conditions requiring rehabilitation and/or long-term care services, end of life planning, advance directives, a refusal for life-sustaining treatments, physiological changes associated with death and dying as well as providing physical and spiritual support to patients at end of life will also be covered.