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Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know addresses an essential component of the basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student.
The purpose of this course is to provide an indepth look at death and dying and to explore the vital role of the nurse in assisting patients and families along the journey towards the end of life.
Nursing Care at the End of Life by Susan E. Lowey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Course Curriculum
Introduction - Nursing Care | |||
Introduction – Nursing Care | 01:30:00 | ||
1. Anticipation | |||
A Historical Overview of End-of-Life Care | 01:30:00 | ||
Types and Variability within Illness Trajectories | 01:30:00 | ||
Conceptual Frameworks Guiding Death & Dying | 01:30:00 | ||
Models of Organized End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care vs. Hospice | 01:30:00 | ||
Initiating Conversations about Goals of Care | 01:30:00 | ||
2. In the Moment | |||
Management of Pain and Physical Symptoms | FREE | 01:30:00 | |
Pharmacological Interventions for Pain | 01:30:00 | ||
Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Pain | 01:30:00 | ||
Management of Emotional and Spiritual Distress | 01:30:00 | ||
Ethical Concerns in End-of-Life Care | 01:30:00 | ||
Care at the Time of Death | 01:30:00 | ||
Nurse–Patient–Family Communication | FREE | 01:30:00 | |
3. Afterwards | |||
Diversity in Dying: Death across Cultures | 01:30:00 | ||
Grief and Bereavement | FREE | 01:30:00 | |
Diversity of Beliefs and Traditions across Religions and Cultures | 01:30:00 |
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