Content
- Lectures: 35 hours
- Independent work: 55 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. Concept of palliative care and hospice care
2. Development and operation of palliative and hospice care in Slovenia
3. Attitudes toward death and dying through history up until present
4. Alleviating and managing physical symptoms
5. Ethical, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of palliative care
6. Course of terminal illness (cases) and introduction of palliative/hospice care
7. Dealing with death and dying – concerning terminally ill and dying patients, relatives and staff
8. Communication characteristics of terminally ill patients and their relatives
9. The process of mourning
10. Children in palliative/hospice care
