This free online caregiving course explains how to ease the suffering of people with serious and terminal illnesses. Have you ever felt the call to make a difference in people's lives during their most vulnerable moments? This caregiving course explores the philosophy behind palliative care and lays out its key dimensions, ethical dilemmas and legal and cultural aspects. We then explain how to integrate palliative care into hospitals and other healthcare settings. Sign up to learn how to provide comfort to suffering patients and improve their quality of life.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 188813 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Discuss the idea and basic principles of palliative care • Distinguish between palliative and curative care • Outline the physical aspects of palliative care, including pain management and integrative therapies • Compare the physical and psychological dimensions of palliative care • Analyze the role of communication skills and decision-making in palliative care • Describe the legal and ethical aspects of palliative care • Explain how to overcome challenges in providing care for special groups of patients, such as children • Explain how to integrate palliative care into hospitals and other healthcare settings |
| Course Code | 6321 |
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