ELDHELS1004 Palliative Care

Contents and structure

• Palliative care and nursing
• The next of kin's perspective
• Cultural perspective
• The perspective of coordination
• Palliative care research
• The difficult conversation and reflection

The course aims at providing exhaustive knowledge in palliative care, enabling the student to become a man of resource at his workplace. Basic ideas and principles and ethics in relation to palliative care will be discussed. Keywords like identity, hope, palliation and reconcilliation, and also the impact multidimensional pain has on the quality of life of both patient and next of kin, are essential terms. The significance of interdisciplinary teams will also be focused on.

Learning Outcome

• has exhaustive knowledge about basic ideas and principles as well as ethics in relation to palliative care
• has an understanding of the outlook towards life near death and death expressed in different cultures
• has comprehensive knowledge in palliative care and nursing
• is familiar with topical research and development work promoting planning, management and coordination of palliative care

• able to establish positive relations and assess the patient's and next of kin's need for conversation
• able to meet the patient's and next of kin's need for information
• able to plan, implement and evaluate care measures, independently and in collaboration with patient, next of kin and in a team, in order to promote quality of life near death
• able to express problems for discussion derived from one's own subject area
• able to carry out systematic literature searches and practice criticism of the sources

• able to reflect on one's own attitudes towards the dying and death
• able to analyse, assess and display, independently and in interdisciplinary collaboration, professional, ethical and legal problems in the work with the terminally ill and their next of kin

Entry requirements

None

Recommended previous knowledge

ELDHELS001 and ELDHELS002

Teaching methods

Lectures, dialogue, self-tuition, teamwork including proposal and written assignment

Compulsory learning activities

80 % turnout for instruction

1 written assignment

Assessment

Home Exam, Graded marks

Examination support material

All

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Course reductions

• ELDHELS004 - Palliasjon i eldreomsorgen - Reduction: 2.5 studypoints