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Sep 16, 2024
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CRS 412 - Long-Term and Palliative Survey of Cardiorespiratory Care Credits: 3 Description Topics pertinent to long-term care facilities including ethics, care, rehabilitation, reimbursement, family interaction, psychology of long-term illness (both patient and family). Palliative care, hospice philosophy, end-of-life topics.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Explain what patient-centered care means and describe its effect on the delivery of respiratory care.
- Explain pulmonary rehabilitation and describe the difference between pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation.
- Document how pulmonary rehabilitation outcomes are ascertained.
- Explain reimbursement issues facing respiratory in-patient and home care today.
- Differentiate between equipment used in the hospital and long-term care settings as well as in the home.
- Describe the role of respiratory therapists in the sleep lab and in smoking cessation clinics.
- Discuss the psychological needs of patients and family members dealing with long-term and palliative care.
- Understand the Hospice philosophy.
- Demonstrate the ability to educate the home-care patient and family members on self-care and disease processes in a way easily comprehended by the lay person.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Bachelor of Applied Science Cardiorespiratory Sciences degree program Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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