PALLIATIVE CARE: ESSENTIALS ON-LINE

Course overview

For nurses in every specialty: the basics of caring for the client whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. Emphasis is on pain management; dealing with emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual issues; and client rights. Course objectives include: * Define and characterize palliative care. * Outline ways to address the emotional and spiritual concerns of the dying client. Florida statutes now allow substitution of a course on Palliative Care for the required HIV / AIDS course or Domestic Violence course, provided that the substituted course was taken in the immediately preceding renewal period.