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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2019
- Course Number:
- GRN 131
- Course Title:
- Hospice Basics
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 10
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
Covers topics addressed in hospice volunteer training. Students providing a training certificate or confirmation letter from a qualified
hospice trainer may apply for Non-Traditional Credit.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
1. Meet the basic skills and knowledge requirements for a volunteer position with a hospice facility or service in care and bereavement support roles;
2. Perform a supportive role in a hospice care team within a hospital, facility or home environment, in accordance with hospice and personcentered
care standards.
Course Activities and Design
• Lecture, discussion, and readings on key concepts, issues, and skills
• Role-play, communication skill-building, and scenario practice
Outcome Assessment Strategies
1) Objective tests on basic concepts and issues
2) Role-play, script practice, and situational problem-solving
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
The course content parallels the topical issues addressed in hospice volunteer training, including the following:
• Hospice history and philosophy
• Hospice eligibility
• Interdisciplinary hospice team roles
• Ethics and confidentiality
• Effective communication within the hospice team, and with hospice patient and family
• Caregiving and coordination among caregivers
• Self-care for hospice workers and caregivers
• Psychosocial aspects of life-threatening illness
• Pain and symptom management
• Infection control
• Advanced directives
• Death and the dying process
• Loss, grief, and bereavement
• Alternative therapies