NUR123 - A Guide to Palliative Nursing Care at End-of-Life (2.5 HR)
The purpose of this course is to develop a guide for nurses in the understanding and delivery of compassionate nursing care at end-of-life.
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to…
Develop a guide for nurses in the understanding and delivery of compassionate nursing care at end-of-life with a three-fold message. First, the guide will serve as a review and reminder for nurses in fostering a contemporary and knowledgeable understanding toward the uniqueness of the dying process in twenty-first century America. Secondly, the guide will serve to recognize symptoms of the imminently dying and relieve the various levels of suffering for those persons living with dying and their bereaved families who must find a way to go on without their loved ones. And thirdly, the guide will be a relevant resource to nurses who may not be experts in the specialty practice of end-of-life care but desire the knowledge base in the specialty’s nursing care aspects.
Objectives: At the end of this course, the learner will be able to...
1. Summarize historical and current end-of-life care within the United States.
2. Define the concepts of “palliative” and “end-of-life” care based on the most recent Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care.
3. Explain the economic challenges of palliative end-of-life care from an ethical and political position.
4. Discuss the essential elements of the Standards of Care in Palliative End-of-Life Nursing Practice based on the Scope and Standards of Hospice and Palliative Nursing Practice.
5. Discuss the essential elements of the Standards of Professional Performance in Palliative End-of-Life Professional Nursing Practice based on the Scope and Standards of Hospice and Palliative Nursing Practice.
6. Discuss the Eight Domains of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for quality palliative end-of-life care based on the work of the task force for the National Consensus Project.
7. Describe how to support individuals and their families in developing informed decision-making processes consistent with their unique beliefs and values.
8. Discuss
Continuing Education Credits: 2.5 contact hours Iowa BON #335; 2.5 contact hours CA Board of Nursing CEP 14033; 2.5 contact hours CE Broker # 50-4572 Florida and District of Columbia; 2.5 contact hours for Social Work State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 159.001315; 0 contact hours for Physical Therapy State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 216.000284; 0 contact hours for Occupational Therapy State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 224.000164; 2.5 CE hours for certified nursing assistants; long term care department heads; and other health care disciplines.