Palliative Care

Catalog description

This course offers a focused learning experience for students to develop mindfulness, compassion, and skill in care of patients during life threatening illness. Didactic and experiential methods will be used to teach students the basic tenets of palliative care. The course focuses on personal/professional self-exploration related to the concepts of loss, grief, suffering, caring, hope, and spirituality. Intellectual discourse occurs in a caring environment that enables students to give and receive peer and faculty support. Nursing care strategies that address client/family centered end of life care and community/family resources are emphasized. Global and cultural considerations are discussed. At the end of the course students will complete ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) certification.