UMH - END-OF-LIFE INTERVENTION

END-OF-LIFE INTERVENTION

Course

Code: 3635

Degree: Master's in Gerontology and Health

Faculty of Health and Social Sciences

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Gerontology and Health

Semester: Fall

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 4.5

Lecture: 1.5

Laboratory: 3

Hours: 112.5

Directed: 80

Shared: 12

Autonomous: 20.5

Subject matter: End-of-Life Intervention

Module: Gerontological Intervention

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Palliative care in geriatrics. Control of symptoms and clinical performance. Assessing emotional needs in geriatric patients and their family. Prevention of complicated grief. Counseling and other intervention. Support for the health workforce. Burnout and compassion fatigue. Bioethics.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
ESTEVEZ CASELLAS, CORDELIA	■	■	■
MORAGA GARCIA, MARIA JOSE		■	■
CARRILLO GARCIA, AIDA		■	■

Professional interest

The interest of this course is to develop self-awareness, ie, understanding and awareness that each person has of himself, so that they can more easily discriminate the emotions and needs of others. Address the issue of intervention at the end of life is critical in gerontology sector.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Apply a comprehensive concept of health in gerontological practice that considers its biopsychosocial components in accordance with guidelines established by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Be able to work on multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and lead multidisciplinary teams.
Establish good interpersonal communication in order to address the community where one works and the individuals with whom one relates to efficiently and with empathy.
Be able to analyze and synthesize information objectively and without prejudice in order to make appropriate decisions in gerontological intervention.
Be able to devise creative solutions to gerontological and health problems.
Be able to design and assess gerontological intervention programs based on comprehensive gerontological evaluation.
Apply the profession's code of ethics, considering user rights.
Be able to update, consolidate, integrate, and evaluate new knowledge in order to improve academic, research, and professional performance using techniques of continuous self-learning and critical analysis.

Specific competencies

Understand the concepts of active aging and quality of life in order to apply them in understanding gerontological issues and create solutions that promote active aging and improve the quality of life in the elderly.
Assess the needs and possible options for developing intervention strategies in situations related to the elderly, always taking the fundamental rights they enjoy into account.
Develop an ethical and professional commitment regarding civic, legal, social, and global responsibilities in the gerontological context to facilitate decision making that is free of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
Establish professional relationships with the aim of identifying the most appropriate manner of intervention in the gerontological area, always respectful for the principles and values of equality between people.
Describe and define the roles of the different professionals involved in the care of the elderly.
Develop communication, problem solving, and team management skills for working on multidisciplinary teams.
Develop communications skills with elderly people within health and disease contexts.
Collect, compile, and verify information obtained in gerontological assessment in order to design personalized intervention.
Understand and use the main intervention techniques applicable to problems and/or disorders associated with aging and compare the intervention results.
Design, plan, and apply gerontological intervention programs and compare their effectiveness and efficiency to ensure the quality of intervention programs.
Understand and discriminate between the physical, psychological, and social processes involved in the final process of life and train for providing care for the terminal patient during the dying process for both the elderly person and their family.
Develop and evaluate one's knowledge to identify attitudes, resources, and difficulties in end-of-life work.
Exercise self-control skills and mechanisms where possible to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

To acquire knowledge about the processes of death and mourning, with a view to preparing and monitoring intervention programs at the end, and prevention of complicated grief.
Students will be able to clarify the concept of human suffering in the proximity of death and its emotional implications.
Students will be able to sustain the intervention of emotional support in a comprehensive model that emerges from the multidimensional human being.
Students will be able to facilitate the adaptation process in the final stage of life.
Students will be able to emphasize the importance of ethical and multidisciplinary performance.
Students will be able to address the counseling as a basic tool of intervention in palliative care.
Students will be able to assess the emotional needs of the geriatric patient at the end of life and their families.
Students will be able to highlight and recognize the importance of working the grieving process and prevent complications.
Students will be able to recognize the value of communication processes between patient, family and professionals in the field of palliative care.
Students will be able to describe patterns of action to address some of the emotional situations which by their frequency and intensity, may be more complex, such as demoralization to end of life or the covenant of silence.
Students will be able to become aware of the need to care for professionals working in care at the end of life and prevent psychological exhaustion. Understand the role they play in this process of recognition and management of emotions.

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Bayés, Ramón 1930-. Barreto, Pilar, aut. "Las unidades de cuidados paliativos como ejemplo de interdisciplinariedad [recurso electronico] = Palliative care services as an example of interdisciplinary work /". Madrid : Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid, 1992.

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

System and criterion of evaluation of the subject
Theoretical module (40% of the final grade): an objective test of 30 multiple-choice questions will be carried out with three alternative answers on the theoretical contents of the subject.
Practical module of activities (30% of the final grade): It will be evaluated through the realization of, 3 activities proposed by the professors, and an online activity (30% of the final grade).

Assessment test characteristics

Characteristics of the access test
The exam of the theoretical part will consist of an objective test of 30 multiple-choice questions with three alternative answers about the theoretical contents of the subject. It will have an on-line nature, being available on the virtual platform from 9 am to 9 pm, and will last 45 minutes from the moment it is accessed, closing automatically after the time.
The activities must be delivered, following the indications specified in the explanatory documents of each activity available on the platform, before December 14, 2018.
The online activity will consist of a discussion forum on a topic indicated by the teachers. Which will be enabled in the virtual platform for two days.

Correction criteria

Correction criteria

The correction formula for the exam is as follows: [(a-e / 2) / N] * 10.
In the document of each one of the activities the objectives to be reached by the student will be specified.
In the online activity the participation, reflexivity and quality of the arguments used in the answer to the question asked in the forum will be valued.
The FINAL NOTE will be obtained in the following way:
(Note Theory x 0.4) + (Note Practical activities x 0.3) + (Note Activity online x 0.3)

Additional requirements

Additional requirements

In compliance with article 2.4. of the Student Evaluation Regulations of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche: The student, when he / she can not follow the continuous assessment procedure previously described, will be entitled to take a final evaluation test on the acquisition of all the competences of the subject , regardless of the systems of participation and continuous evaluation.

To approve it is essential to obtain a grade equal to or greater than 5 in each of the parties (according to article 5 of the qualification system established in Royal Decree 1125/2003, of September 5). In case of not passing the subject, but one of its parts, the note of the part approved in any call, will be kept forever until the other part is exceeded.

In extraordinary calls the same evaluation criteria will be applied and, in a particular way, in the case of the December call, the evaluation tests will deal with the content of the previous course.

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