1st Edition
Nursing Education in Thanatology A Curriculum Continuum
By Florence Selder
Copyright 1991
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal teaching of thanatology in schools for health care professionals is generally overlooked and ill-defined, many students and professionals will learn to deal with dying and grieving upon their first encounter with death.... Read more
Contents
Section I: Teaching Aspects and the Thanatology Curriculum Content
- Considerations in Teaching Thanatology
- Concepts of Thanatology in the Nursing Curriculum
- University of Michigan’s School of Nursing Curriculum Related to Issues of Death and Dying
- Cremation in the Thanatology Curriculum
- Death Education Changes Coping to Confidence
- The LPN: Ability to Deliver Care to the Terminally Ill
- The Near-Death Experience: Implications for Nursing Education
- Guidelines for Death Education as a Developmental Process
- The Value of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Death Education
- A Study of the Relationship Between Knowledge and Attitudes of Nurses in Practice Related to the Near-Death Experience
- Section II: Coping Approaches and the Thanatology Curriculum
- Grieving: An Essential Topic in Allied Health Education
- Implementation of the Management of the Grieving Process in the Curriculum at Suffolk Community College
- Section III: Clinical Imperatives
- Clinical Imperatives Versus Ethical Commitments in Euthanasia: The Perspective of Nurses
- Grief: Teaching the Hard Things
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Florence E. Selder
