NURS 204 - Palliative Care Issues

Credit(s): 2
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 interested in 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 strategies address end-of-life care.