NUR126 - Dying with Dignity (1.0 HR)

Purpose: This course encourages health care providers to deliver compassionate, individualized end-of-life care that honors each terminally ill patient’s values, preferences, and sense of dignity.

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. Define “dignity” in the context of person-centered end-of-life care.
2. Identify the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, ethical, and legal factors that influence the preservation of dignity at the end of life.
3. Name professional nursing standards, ethical principles, and evidence-based guidelines to support patient-centered end-of-life care.
4. Define Chochinov’s Dignity Model and dignity-conserving approaches used to preserve dignity in patients with serious illness at the end of life.
5. Identify evidence-based nursing interventions that promote comfort, communication, symptom management, autonomy, and individualized care for patients at the end of life.
6. List self-care strategies for health care professionals to protect their own mental health while caring for patients at the end of life.

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0 contact hours Iowa BON #335; 1.0 contact hours CA Board of Nursing CEP 14033; 1.0 contact hours CE Broker # 50-4572 Florida and District of Columbia; 1.0 contact hours for Social Work State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 159.001315; 0 contact hours for Physical Therapy State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 216.000284; 0 contact hours for Occupational Therapy State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 224.000164; 1.0 CE hours for certified nursing assistants; long term care department heads; and other health care disciplines.