(2-AUDIO CD DISC SET) Serving as a Midwife to the Dying

In keeping with our ANM theme of the human life cycle, this lecture is to enable the participant to gain emotional insight into the patient experience of illness; to facilitate self-reflection on the participant?s roles as providers of patient care at the end of life; to describe the philosophy and principles of hospice and palliative care that can be integrated across patient care settings to effect quality care at the end of life; to identify strategies for non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions for pain and symptom management to persons at the end of life; and to explore the end of life in special populations.