2016-2017 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
NUR 581 - Chronic and Terminal Illness: The Palliative/Hospice Model
Explores the trajectory of dying in America from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Content will be presented from theoretical, socio-cultural, and political frameworks as they apply to care of those with life-limiting disease and palliative and/or hospice care within the US health care system. Ethical, legal and socio-cultural dilemmas will be examined. Course offered fall semester. Prerequisite: Post baccalaureate status or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3