Comprehensive Support and Interaction Between Patients and Family and Friends in Palliative Care (5cr)

Objective

Comprehensive support and interaction between patients and family and friends in palliative care 5 ETCS PAL3

Objectives

Student
• is able to comprehensively recognise, encounter, guide and support the individual needs of patients and their families and friends and to utilise presence as a method of assistance
• understands the significance of crisis and grief as part of the lives of people of different ages and from different cultures
• is familiar with the opportunities of multidisciplinary cooperation in providing comprehensive support
• understands the concept of family orientation, inclusion and meaningfulness and is able to apply them in their work
• identifies and anticipates changes in patient communication due to illness
• is able to utilise communication methods and aids that support or compensate for speech
• recognises their own attitude to death and the significance of well-being at work

Content

Contents
• Comprehensive encounters, dialogue-based interaction and bringing up difficult issues for a patient in palliative and hospice care and their loved ones
• The role and significance of grief
• Cultural sensitivity in encountering grief and death
• Holding on to hope and meaning
• Caring presence and respectful contact as methods of assistance
• Forms of support (psychosocial, informative, emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual, existential and practical support)
• Multiprofessional cooperation in comprehensive patient support
• Changes in patient communication, communication methods and aids that support and compensate for speech
• Considering your own perception of death, grief and life story and coping at work