Teaching symptom management in end-of-life care: the didactic content and teaching strategies based on the end-of-life nursing education curriculum.
Relief of symptoms for patients and families throughout the illness trajectory requires that palliative care practitioners have knowledge and skill, both in assessment and use of pharmacologic and complementary therapies. This article presents the didactic content of symptom assessment and management, and the experiential experiences used in a nondrug laboratory within the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) curriculum.
Sherman
Deborah Witt
DW
Division of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, USA. das1@nyu.edu
Matzo
Marianne LaPorte
ML
Coyne
Patrick
P
Ferrell
Betty R
BR
Penn
Barbara K
BK
D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003142:Communication; D003248:Constipation / Q000451:nursing; D003371:Cough / Q000451:nursing; D003479:Curriculum; D003863:Depression / Q000451:nursing; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000451:nursing; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000451:nursing; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005221:Fatigue / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000592:standards; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013664:Teaching Materials; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology