Senior Integrative Seminar I

Catalog description

This course offers a focused learning experience for students to develop mindfulness, compassion, and skill in care of clients 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.