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Nature of course request C00842 :

New course

Undergraduate

First term offered : Fall 2010
Course Prefix&Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
Gerontology 430	Palliative Care and Chronic Ilness	4 - 0

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Palliative Care

Catalog Description: Catalog Description: An overview of the principles and practices of palliative care for life-limiting illness and application to chronic illness will be presented. This course will address psychosocial needs, pain and symptom management, effective communication, grief and bereavement, and needs of caregivers as these topics relate to end-of-life care in older adults. An historical foundation of the hospice movement that has lead to the development of current philosophy of palliative care will be discussed.

Course Goal and Objectives: -Students will analyze the underlying philosophy and principles of palliative care. -Students will gain familiarity with local and national palliative and hospice care resources and policies -Students will examine strategies for promoting comfort and quality-of-life for older adults with chronic or life-limiting illness -Students will gain understanding of issues related to grief and loss -Students will develop an understanding of principles of communicating with terminally ill individuals patients and their families -Students will gain appreciation for the impact of life-limiting and chronic illness on family members -Students will develop and understanding of chronic illness from a biopsychosocial perspective -Students will learn about local and national policies related to physician-assisted suicide -Students will gain insight into stress related to caretaking

Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course will be part of the core required courses for the newly proposed Gerontology major.

Faculty and facilities needed: No new faculty or facilities needed, however we will indirectly need to hire NTT (or possibly a tenure track) faculty to replace the course that the faculty member would replace in order to teach this course.

Brief Course outline: Section 1: Overview of Hospice Movement and Palliative Care Approach • Definition of the terms: palliative care, life-limiting illness, curative care, and end-of-life care • Understanding the philosophy and principles of palliative care • The role of national end-of-life care standards • The structure of team approach to palliative care services Section 2: Communication Skills • Strategies for communicating with individual’s with chronic or life-limiting illness • Gain understanding of cultural and religious diversity, in relation to caring for a person, diagnosed with a chronic or life-limiting illness • The role of the members of the healthcare team when communicating information to the dying person and his/her family Section 3: Pain and Symptom Management • Biopsychosocial approach promoting autonomy, safety, comfort, dignity and respect • New approaches to pain management and symptom control • Coping with chronic pain Section 4: Bereavement Care • Understanding theories of grief and loss • Special bereavement needs of older adults • Respite needs for caregivers • Disenfranchised grief • Awareness of how to access bereavement services Section 5: Physician Assisted Suicide • Current national and local legislation • Current statistics and demographics • Ethical debates • Hospice policies

Approval Queue C00842

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