RDTP 115B - Caring for the Patient at the End of Life

Credits: 1

Semesters Offered: Spring
Campus/Sites Offered: Charleston
Offering Note: No additional information available.

Description
This course outlines the wide range of clinical experiences used to care for patients at the end of life. The course discusses practical guidance for clinicians, patients, and families about critical communication issues such as delivering bad news, discussing palliative care, making decisions for incapacitated patients, and exploring the wish to die.

Student Learning Outcomes

Discuss Humanistic End-of-Life Care.
Understand palliative care.
Discuss palliative care with professional colleagues.
Demonstrate knowledge of clinical, ethical and policy challenges in Hospice care.
Discuss Kubler-Ross states of death and dying.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade