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About the Course
Palliative care provides important support for people living with serious or life-limiting illnesses and their family caregivers. In this course, you will learn to use symptom assessment tools to better understand which symptoms are present and which are most distressing. In subsequent weeks you will learn about some of the most common and distressing symptoms such as anorexia (loss of appetite), dyspnea (shortness of breath), fatigue (weakness), delirium(confusion) and constipation and nausea/vomiting. For each of these symptoms, you will learn about the underlying cause and potential ways to support people and their families to manage the symptoms with simple practical and non-medical approaches as well as a review of medications as appropriate. In addition, you will learn to help people with their emotional response to symptoms and loss of function.
You will be able to immediately use these insights, skills, and tools in your work with people living with serious illness. In other courses, you will learn communication skills, whole person assessment, how to ease physical pain and explore ways to ease psycho-social-spiritual distress.
Top reviews
AA
Feb 24, 2019
A great and a very useful course. I like that we are taught about the medicine.
RF
May 02, 2019
All instructors are amazing. Additional videos were very valuable.
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By Rodrigo F
•May 02, 2019
All instructors are amazing. Additional videos were very valuable.
By Nicola J
•Apr 27, 2019
Excellent course on how to respond to distressing physical symptoms such as constipation, shortness of breath, fatigue and so on. Very informative and I learnt much. The course is also easy to follow and sets out the information in laymen's terms.
By Ayham A
•Feb 24, 2019
A great and a very useful course. I like that we are taught about the medicine.
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