NURS 759 - End of Life and Palliative Care Management

Credit(s): 1
Corequisite(s): NURS 749 Advanced Pharmacology
Patients with serious illness are living longer and with greater disabilities. Palliative care interventions have been demonstrated to increase quality of life, lower costs and improve survival. It is crucial for family nurse practitioners and other primary care providers to understand how they can provide primary palliative care and when they should refer to palliative care specialists. This on line course will emphasize a patient- oriented care model whereby working inter-professional, the family nurse practitioner will contribute to comprehensive, individualized, coordinated care that support both primary care and palliative care. This course will review nursing and related healthcare literature that illustrates benefits of palliative care; discuss why primary care clinicians are ideally suited to incorporate palliative care into their practice; and provide guidance to primary care clinicians, particularly family nurse practitioners, how and when to access palliative care specialist services, how to gain more training in palliative care, and how to be reimbursed for palliative care visits.

This course requires a grade of B (3.0) or better.