NURS 557 - Advanced Illness,Dying and Death:Psychosocial and Policy Perspectives

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Reifsnyder; Strumpf; Vito. Prerequisite(s): Undergrad Students: NURS 104, 106 Graduate Students: None. for Graduate Students and Junior and Senior Undergraduate Nursing Students (with Course Faculty Permission). The overarching framework for the study of psychosocial and spiritual concerns in this course is respect for and understanding of the patient's and family's unique beliefs, values, preferences, and choices. The course will examine patient and family perspectives as well as health care system variables and societal issues that affect the organization and delivery of care during advanced illness and at the end of life. Students will engage in critical analysis of the evidence base concerning psychosocial and spiritual concerns and barriers to and opportunities for improving end of life care across the diverse settings in which health care is delivered. The historical, social, cultural, policy, economic, legal and ethical trends will be explored. Students will critique and propose innovative approaches to affecting sustainable organizational improvements in palliative and end of life care. This course satisfies the Society & Social Structures Sector for Nursing Class of 2012 and Beyond.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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