Applied Healthcare Ethics

Catalog description

Examines ethical issues around death and dying within a framework informed by the practice of clinical bioethics. Topics include definitions and social understandings of death, ethical theory as it applies to clinical practice, navigating end-of-life conflict situations, compassionate and effective communication around death, and end-of-life care in the pediatric context. THA 705 Children’s Understanding of Death and Grief 3 credits Examination of the attitudes & responses of children and teens to death, loss, and grief, in context of human developmental stages. Topics include strategies for working with families and caregivers of terminally ill children/teens; facilitating communication between healthcare providers & families; strategies for helping children/teens in the midst of family illness; & models of bereavement programs.