Dying with Dignity

Continuing Education Credit Designation  

This educational activity is credited for 2.5 hours upon completion.

Overview

Human dignity is the core of nursing. It manifests when a nurse respects a patient when providing care. The nurse must provide care to the dying patient and their family members that conforms with cultural beliefs and habits. Because death is an unavoidable phenomenon that everyone will experience regardless of health care that is provided, human dignity with respect to end-of-life care must be appreciated. Helping terminally ill patients and their families manage decisions regarding death is a central responsibility of nursing, andit is essential that nurses be given better tools with which to deliver spiritual care. The nurse must provide dignified, spiritually astute (outside of the religious realm), comprehensive care to the dying patient to allow death with dignity to occur. 

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to:

1. Define human dignity as it relates to the dying patient
2. Describe attributing factors to death anxiety, and ways to assist the patient and supporters in mediating the effects.
3. Review the six attributes to spirituality, and how they influence the patient’s and supporter’s perceptions of death.
4. Review the American Nurse Association Code of Ethics stance on assisted suicide.

Policy Statement  

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Disclosures

Fast CE For Less, Inc. and its authors have no disclosures. There is no commercial support.