2919 (v.5) Palliative Care 467

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Other:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit will focus on socio-cultural perspective of death and dying in Australia; social-cultural, psychological and spiritual dimensions of palliative care across diverse groups; nursing/allied health assessment and support of the palliative patient and their family; principles of a palliative approach to care; evidence informed management for common end-of-life symptoms; the inter-professional team approach to palliative care; ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care; use of complimentary and alternative therapies; personal responses to end-of-life conditions, grief and bereavement.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	060311 Aged Care Nursing
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2				Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External