This one-day program is designed for health professionals who want to improve the care they provide a dying child, the child's family, and themselves. The session will also address collaborative team caregiving, personal exploration, ethics of caring for the dying child, spiritual care, cultural diversity, pediatric hospice, and current UCCH bereavement initiatives. Introduction to medical terms used in the health field. Construction of medical terms using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
Emphasis is placed on definitions, spelling and pronunciation of terms.
This course meets on Wednesdays for 7 weeks. Participants will learn how to construct and evaluate basic search strategies and how to obtain the citations they retrieve from the database. It provides the opportunity for physicians, nurses, chaplains, therapists, and other health care providers to apply these skills to various types of patient situations they encounter in daily practice. Staff participation includes discussion and defending ideas using some sort of ethical reasoning. This process is coached by moderators Camille Renella and Lainie Ross, both faculty at the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.