That is why the advanced practice core courses are included. Students will select a clinical area, as well as, the specialty of case management. It is care when cure is no longer possible. There is a strong symptom management component in our program. Palliative Care uses traditional nursing care, as well as, alternate methods of interventions.
Cultural sensitivity is developed in the program.
Palliative Care specialists will work in hospice settings, in-patient palliative care units, or as consultants in these and other areas of health care. Leaders in nursing in the Cleveland area told us that advanced practice nurses in these two tracks would need this preparation. The pharmacology course will be necessary when Ohio passes the current proposal on prescriptive privileges. Every state except Ohio grants prescriptive privileges. Graduates who plan to work outside of Ohio will need advanced pharmacologic preparation in order to practice with prescriptive privileges.