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May 08, 2024
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2020-2022 Catalog Volume XXX Ver 3 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PPR 6004 Introduction to Hospice and Palliative Care
Lecture: 2 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 2
This course introduces students to hospice and palliative care. Students learn how medication therapy changes as a patient’s condition, goals of care, and prognosis change. Students are introduced to management of both common diagnoses and symptoms in hospice and palliative care patients. Small ethical discussions involving appropriate therapy at the end of life occur. The course gives students the opportunity to practice looking up drug information questions and giving verbal pharmacotherapy recommendations.
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