Palliative and Hospice Care
Author: Noah Carpenter, MD, Susan DePasquale, MA, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Noah Carpenter, MD, Susan DePasquale, MA, MSN, PMHNP-BC
CE:
3
hours
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Pharmacotherapeutics Credits: 0
Related to prescribing controlled substances: 0
Course Summary
Human comfort, dignity, and a sense of peace are the ideal outcomes of both palliative and hospice care. Palliative care focuses on providing patients with serious illnesses an optimal quality of life to alleviate both the physical pain and the emotional stress caused by the illness. Hospice care is focused on maximizing the quality of life for those in the final stages of a serious illness. Members of the interdisciplinary health team have key roles in both palliative and hospice care settings where end-of-life needs are being met.
Course Format
Homestudy
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- Palliative and Hospice Approaches to Holistic Care
Interdisciplinary Health Team Approach
- Palliative Care: Multidimensional
- Physical Care and Pain Control
- Pain Medication Types and Palliative Sedation
- Common Physical Treatment
- Promoting Independence in Palliative Patients
- Rehabilitation
- Surgical Procedures
- Emotional and Spiritual Care
- Hospice Care: End of Life
- A Brief History of Hospice Care
- Course of Care
- End-of-Life and Death
- Respite and Caregiver Support
- Bereavement Counseling
- Case Studies: Pediatric Palliative Care
- Case 1: 15-year-old Female
- Case 2: 18-month Child
- Summary