Title:

e-ELCA 05: Specific conditions and contexts

Description:

This module provides resources which help you to draw together your learning from e-ELCA, and from your own experience, to consider practical situations drawn from real world practice.

There are sessions which:
• introduce you to the concepts of palliative care and end of life care, and how to optimize this in the acute hospital setting
• explore when and how to initiate conversations about end-of-life care in the context of cancer, dementia, long-term neurological conditions and respiratory disease
• describe how to approach different clinical situations,
• consider how to deliver effective end of life care in less usual settings
• explore how to manage end of life care in the context of different diseases

The resources in the e-ELCA programme discuss sensitive topics including death, dying, the different stages of end-of-life and bereavement which may be distressing to some learners.

Hierarchy:

End of Life Care (e-ELCA) > e-ELCA 05: Specific conditions and contexts

Keywords:

acute hospitals, ambulance, cancer, cardiac failure, care home, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia, end of life care, homeless, integrating learning, intensive care unit, motor neuron disease, neurological disease, palliative care, prison, protracted dying, renal disease, respiratory, terminal agitation, unexpected death

Created:

12 Oct 2009

Updated:

3 Aug 2021