PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE.

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: graduate standing. Explores the care of children in pediatric palliative care, including comparing palliative care to hospice care and discussing the challenges to access these services. The course looks at the variety of illnesses that impact children and adolescents and the ways in which pediatric palliative care services may prove beneficial. Insight into the experience of childhood illness for the ill child, siblings, parents, and other family members.