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Learner Reviews & Feedback for What is Palliative Care? by University of Colorado System

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About the Course

Palliative care provides invaluable help for patients living with serious or life-limiting illness and their family caregivers. Palliative care should be part of healthcare services to improve quality of life, the ability to tolerate and benefit from treatment and improve survival. In this course, you will learn about the nature of suffering and how this concept can help you understand the experience of people living with serious illness. Next, you will learn skills to more effectively communicate with patients, families and other care providers to both understand their experiences and provide an extra layer of support. In the next module you will explore your own core values and beliefs and how they impact your work with others. Finally, you will learn how to do a whole person assessment to understand the needs of people with serious illness so you can develop a plan to support them. You will be able to immediately use these insights, skills and tools in your work with people living with serious illness. In later courses, you will learn to ease pain and other symptoms, such as loss of appetite, shortness of breath and fatigue. In the final course, you will explore ways to ease psycho-social-spiritual distress. These courses will prepare you to bring basic palliative care to all in need....

Top reviews

AP

Sep 8, 2020

Excellent course!! Even if can't compare to a master's degree, it certainly helps with the foundations you'll need in the future if you want to take this path in healthcare.

SA

May 23, 2020

Fantastic class! I learned a lot. I love the fact that we have required readings; the teachers are so knowledgeable and the quizzes were at the right level of difficulty.

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By Larissa G

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Dec 6, 2023

Muito bom, curso bem detalhado

By elis l

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Sep 7, 2020

excellent and well-explained!

By Andres M O M

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Jun 11, 2020

EXCELLENT CONTENT,

By 張廣儀

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Oct 11, 2022

useful and good.

By Raneen A A A

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Sep 27, 2020

It's great course

By Helen U

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Jul 3, 2020

Great course

By Truong N

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Oct 7, 2023

Excellent

By Dr. R E M

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Oct 5, 2020

Very good

By Jeshua R G

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Feb 8, 2020

Excelente

By Yanuar A

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Apr 12, 2021

Baik

By Mona A A

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Sep 26, 2020

good

By Esdras R

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Jul 20, 2020

N/A

By Friend O

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Apr 16, 2020

From my own understanding of the course, Palliative care is a field of Medicaid or Medicare that is use to help improve the quality of life of patients and their families who is going through sufferings that are life-threatening like in the form of illnesses. Palliative care helps through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and treatment assessment of pain or suffering that could be either psychosocial, physical and or spiritual.

By Heidi C

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Apr 11, 2023

This coarse was fantastic! Very informative and teaches skills that will definitely help in working with person(s) with serious illness. Thank you!

By soumi l

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Jul 14, 2020

This seemed way too long for what palliative care is. I think that the fluff could be eliminated and the course could be shortened. we lose focus by the end.

By Jeffrey A

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Jul 20, 2020

Good tool, but very long winded

By Philip X

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Sep 18, 2023

Page formatting needs work. Quizzes don't show up with proper answers. Tests are too vague for the write in course material.

By Danielle G

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Apr 26, 2021

The tests were skewed, the questions were hard to answer because the page had errors. Otherwise the material was simple and easy to learn.