NUR 636 - End-of-Life Nursing Care

3 credit(s)
This course focuses on end-of-life issues to equip nurses with advanced knowledge for providing optimum end-of-life care for patients, families, and communities. Course content includes symptom and pain management, communication, last hours of life, and bereavement. The course also specifically addresses ethics, culture, economic and sociopolitical effects on our nation’s care for the dying, and the role of healthcare professionals in achieving quality care at the end of life. The course is a certified course of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC). Nurses who successfully complete this course are designated ELNECTrained by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The course is interdisciplinary in its approach and open to graduate students of other disciplines. Undergraduate nursing students may take this course with permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Matriculation in the Master of Science in Nursing program.

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