Course: NURS 2516 – Health & Healing II Weekly Content: Death & Dying

Objectives:
The learner will:
 Define the concepts of loss and bereavement and types of grief as they relate to the particular needs of clients across the lifespan.
 Differentiate between religion and spirituality.
 List strategies to provide support for the family, caregivers and friends of a dying client.
 Explain the concept of death and dying across the life span, and how the impact of sudden and expected death can affect client adaptation.
 Establish and maintain a caring environment and supporting clients to manage a peaceful or “Good” death.
 Explain a review of nursing implications as it pertains to the elderly, in relation to the legal aspects of informed consent, competency, living
will, power of attorney, advanced directives and euthanasia.

To Post in DC Connect: Equipment & Supplies:

Readings: Resources: Laptop
End of Life – Best Practice Guideline Care in the Last Days and Hours of Life Pointer
End of Life BPG - Fact Sheet Creating a Lasting Impression of a Short Life Cue Cards
Advanced Care Planning Workbook How do I Cope? Markers
Near End of Life – How can you help Flip Chart Paper
When Someone Close to you is dying Video Links

Readings: To Send for Printing:

Touhy et al., Pg.378-383, Ch. 25 End of Life BPG – Fact Sheet
Ross-Kerr et al., Pg. 385-386, 547-548, Ch. 28 Case Study Handouts
Advanced Care Planning Workbook
End of Life Best Practice Guideline
Advanced Care Planning Workbook
Time Activity Subtopics Resources
10 min Connection Activity Introduction to Death & Review Concerns / Worries about caring for Cue Cards
Reflect – Write – Pair & Share Dying someone who is dying
Debrief & discuss concerns
20 min Content Activity Grief & Loss Concepts of Grief, Mourning, Loss
Spirituality & Religion
Lecture, Discussion & Reflective Factors influencing the grieving process
Questioning Types of Grief
Models for the stages of Grief
10 min Practice Activity Nurses play a significant role in identifying Case Study
abnormal grieving patterns and are in an Handouts &
Case Studies designed to identify the type ideal role to support someone through the questions
of grief being experienced and the grieving process. Video: There is
nursing role in facilitating healty grieving Use of interprofessional team members and no right way to
practices external community resources grieve

10 min Break

5 min Content Activity The Needs of Dying Define End of Life Care Article with
Patients and their Fa Introduce concept of a “good death” Questions
Mini-Lecture milies Introduce Weisman’s 6C approach
Read and analyze a brief article on the
meaning of a “Good Death”
20 min Practice Activity Weisman’s 6C Approach
Care
Travelling Folder – Students work in small Control
groups to brainstorm the nurses role in Composure
providing each “C” Communication
Continuity
Closure
10 min Content Activity Legal Aspects of Dying Living Will Video on Living
Power of Attorney Will’s
Write a headline on the importance of Medically Assisted Death
advanced planning for end of life wishes Euthanasia
Mini-lecture & Discussion
10 min Practice Activity Nurses Role in the Legal Aspects of Dying Advanced Care
Planning
Using the Advanced Care Planning Guide Workbook
Workbook, have students role play
helping a patient make end of life
decisions
15 min Summary Activity Summarize Death & Debrief: the video (Wit) specifically related Video: “Wit”
Dying Lecture to the nurses’ role in end of life care and the
Headline Activity – write a follow up importance of advanced planning.
headline on the importance of advanced
planning based on the video “WIT” Review concerns from the Connection
Activity – ask students to evaluate whether
they feel they have had their concern
addressed.
After Class Reflection: