Welcome

Overview

Pain Management

Symptom Management
Welcome to the course, “Nursing Care at the End of Life”

This course will give you a basic understanding of care at the end of life, so you will be more knowledgeable about the needs of patients at this critical time in their lives.

This online course is made up of these three main parts:

General Overview
including:
Death and Dying in America
A Brief Overview of Hospice
A Brief Overview of Palliative Care
Pain Management
including:
Issues in Healthcare
Pain Assessment
Symptom Management
including:
In End-of-Life Care
The Terminal Phases of Illness

Your responsibility as student is to read and know this material. There will be a test at the end of each of the three course modules.

Begin by clicking "Overview" at left.