PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE.

Catalog description

Notes: may be stacked with CDST 533 . Pre-requisites: junior standing. Explores the care of children in pediatric palliative care, including comparing palliative care to hospice care and discussing the challenges to access of these services. Looks at the variety of illnesses that impact children and adolescents and the ways in which pediatric palliative care services may prove beneficial. Students gain insight in the experience of childhood illness for the ill child, siblings, parents, and other family members.