The fundamental goals in caring for persons with terminal illness are to relieve suffering and create the opportunity for reconciliation with God, self, and others.
Effective care encompasses all spheres of being individuals, social systems, and caregivers.
Completion of all Junior II courses or permission of the instructor. Compare selected theoretical approaches to psychological, social, and spiritual interventions with clients and their social systems in terminal situations. Analyze current concepts in the control of pain and other problems of advanced and terminal disease. Evaluate selected institutional approaches to terminal care. Explain selected cultural and spiritual dimensions in dying and death.