Table 6 Curriculum part B - Palliative Care
From: Palliative care for the elderly - developing a curriculum for nursing and medical students
Learning Goal (recommended reading) | Learning Objective | Educational Strategy | Learning Domain |
|---|---|---|---|
Holistic Care | -Student knows about and accepts the importance of personal, psychological, existential and spiritual issues at the end of life | Teacher-based instruction Discussion Case-based learning | Cognitive Affective |
| Â | -Student knows about and accepts the fact, that the issues stated above vary widely due to cultural influence - Student knows about and accepts the fact that elderly people have a need to discuss the | Â | Â |
| Â | issues stated above, despite their old age | Â | Â |
Pain control | -student knows and accepts the point that efficient pain control is crucial to successful palliative care | Teacher-based instruction | Cognitive |
| Â | - student knows and accepts the point that freedom of pain is important for personal, psychological, existential and spiritual issues at the end of life to be addressed | Discussion | Affective |
-Student knows that while treating symptoms in the elderly, the fragile equilibrium of an elderly persons physiology has to be considered and protected at all cost | Teacher-based instruction Case-based learning | Cognitive |