HLTH5203

This course is designed to provide the student with thought provoking, informed decision making for end of life care. All people have choices and options about how they will spend their time on earth. It is imperative that these options are thoroughly considered so that individual wishes and desires are planned for and carried out. Complex medical, ethical and legal matters at end of life will be explored. Interventions and therapies such as artificial hydration and nutrition, acute treatment modalities, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and life support will be examined. Healthcare programs providing end of life care will be investigated, judging cost and quantity of life versus quality of life. Assisted suicide and euthanasia will also be scrutinized and debated.