NURS 539F - Advanced Palliative Care Externship - NP

Units: 4

Designed for the Nurse Practitioner and provides an overview of the foundations of palliative care for individuals and their families who are experiencing serious illness within the interdisciplinary palliative care team. An emphasis of this course is the philosophy, theory, evidence based standards of care, and the interdisciplinary aspects of a comprehensive and compassionate system of palliative care for individuals and their families experiencing complex illness with uncertain timing of death. Current trends and business practices that affect provision of quality care and use of compassionate resources at the end of life are analyzed. Requires 180 clinical hours. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted to students who have obtained consent from the department. Enrollment restricted to students enrolled in the Master of Science in Nursing Program.