End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation Online distance learning
Explore dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluate new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues.
- Length: 3 weeks: 4 hours per week
- Start date: anytime
- Introductory: leads to further study opportunities
Why this course
Intended learning outcomes
- Remember key elements and discussions in the end of life care challenges that are being faced around the world, including important metrics
- Understand the implications of these issues, debates and metrics for policy making, service organisation, clinical practice and public involvement
- Apply these understandings to specific situations with which learners will be presented in the course materials – through specific micro-case studies – and sharing their own experiences and ideas in discussion with others
- Analyse current debates on end of life care in ways which lead to comparisons between different settings
- Evaluate and make critical judgements based on research evidence about existing and new approaches to end of life care and potential solutions to problems identified
- Create new scenarios for future end of life care based on an analysis of needs, conflicting debates, best practice and the potential for innovation
How to register
Registration is free. The course is hosted on an external learning platform, Futurelearn.
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