Curricula

Objectives

After completing the course, you will be able to apply evidence-based knowledge in your field when planning, implementing and evaluating the psychosocial and existential support needs of a patient and his / her family in palliative care in a multidisciplinary team. You evaluate and develop your own expertise as you work in a multi-professional team and networks. You interpret the patient's communication needs and changes, and plan the means of communication taking into account the patient's linguistic and cultural starting points. You will have advanced interaction skills when encountering patients and his / her family in palliative care and end-of-life care. You assess and develop your own emotional and self-reflection skills.

Content

- Psychosocial needs and methods of psychosocial support (physical, mental, social, mental, sexual)
- Social benefits
- Implementing and enabling existential and spiritual support
- Grief as a concept and phenomenon; crisis and grief work for people of all ages
- Maintaining hope, empowerment
- Meeting patients of different ages and cultures and their families
- Interaction in meeting a patient in palliative and end-of-life care and his / her family: Discussing difficult issues; participation in a care negotiation as a member of a multidisciplinary team; speaking; Active listening; Helping interaction; Motivational discussion; Communication methods that support and replace speech, Use of interpreting services
- Multi-professionalism
- Consulting skills
- Awareness skills and self-knowledge
- Coping at work, job supervision, empathy

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Teaching methods

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Practical training and working life connections

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Exam dates and retake possibilities

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International connections

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Student workload

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Content scheduling

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Further information for students

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Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Pass:
Knowledge: The student masters the knowledge base corresponding to the special expertise of palliative care. He / she demonstrates critical understanding about key concepts, theoretical knowledge, principles, methods, and ethics. The student is able to acquire and evaluate evidence-based information from various data sources. He / she is able to use new knowledge, understanding the rapid accumulation of scientific knowledge and the development of the profession. He / she understands issues related to palliative care and the interfaces between different disciplines and professions. He / she is able to evaluate multidisciplinary knowledge from the perspective of his / her own professional tasks and responsibilities.

Skills: The student masters the special skills required to perform the care of a patient in palliative care. He / she is able to make decisions about complex treatment-related problems together with the patient. In problem solving, he / she utilizes evidence-based knowledge creatively. He / she is able to create, develop and utilize multi-professional and cross-organizational networks. He / she takes responsibility for patient care and its development in his /her own work community as part of a multidisciplinary team.

General competencies: The student is able to share, evaluate and justify structured and constructive evidence-based information for the development of care. He / she is proactive and takes responsibility for evaluating and reforming patient care practices in her work community. He / she critically examines his own skills and has internalized the continuous development of himself / herself and his/her work community. He / she understands future challenges such as a changing service system and multiculturalism.

Fail:
Knowledge: The student does not master information corresponding to special expertise in palliative care. He / she is not able to search comprehensively for evidence-based data and / or to evaluate the suitability and use of data in the treatment of a palliative patient. The minimum requirements (NQF / EQF 6) are not met.

Skills: The student does not master problem-solving skills corresponding to the patient's special care skills. His / her ability to develop and operate in multidisciplinary networks is insufficient. His / her preconditions for developing the care of a patient in palliative care in his / her own organization as part of a multidisciplinary team are insufficient. The minimum requirements (NQF / EQF 6) are not met.

General competencies:
The student does not master common competencies. He / she is not proactive and accountable evaluating and reforming patient care practices. The ability to understand future challenges is limited. The minimum requirements (NQF / EQF 6) are not met.