Principles and practice in hospice and palliative care
Ms S Lee
4.5 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Peninsula
Palliative care is not simply symptom control, rather it is to assist clients to live to their fullest potential until death. This subject is designed to develop the students' assessment skills and their ability to offer increasingly creative options in care in order that they may foster an improved quality of life for their patients. The content includes health assessment skills in palliative care, complementary healing praxis and symptom control.
Assessment
Assignment: 75% * Class presentation: 25%
Prescribed texts
Hodder P and Turley A The creative option of palliative care Melbourne City Mission, 1989