Teaching Suggestions for End of Life
updated May 11, 2013

Aesthetic Resources
Interview on simulation and End of Life Care

Using Music to Teach about End of Life                                     Blogs about end of life care  --coming soon

Using Art to Teach about End of Life                                          TED Talks about end of life care -- coming soon

Using Movies to Teach about End of Life                                   YouTube Videos about end of life care-- coming soon

Using Books to Teach About End of Life Care

Nursing Diagnoses related to End of Life

Suggestions for combining art, music and literature

 Educational Goal:
  • NCLEX 2013 Test Blueprint:
    Psychosocial Integrity, end of life care
  • National Consensus Project
    Domain #4 Social Aspects of Care
  • ICU RWJ Guidelines
  Educational Goal:
  • NCLEX 2013 Test Blueprint:
    Psychosocial Integrity, end of life care
  • National Consensus Project
    Domain #7 Care of the Imminently Dying
  • ICU RWJ Guidelines
Music:              That's the Deal  by Kathy Mattea

Art:                   Mom and Dad by Steven Assael            

Literature:        My Father at 85 by Robert Blye
 Music:              I'm Not Afraid to Die by Gillian Welch
Art:                     Death's Waiting Room  by M. Mellon
Literature:        To a Young Woman in a Coma by Amy Gerstler (Medicine)

Other combinations: Skin by Rascal Flats + At the Cancer Clinic by Ted Kooser and Cancer Cell #1 by Angela Canada-Hopkins

 
The Silver Hour has 3 phases--the dying, dead and death phase. Each requires specific teaching and learning activities.

Lesson plans:  being updated

     Dying

    Death

    Dead

Simulation -- End of Life

Model of End of Life Simulation plan (Jeffries, 2007)
Plan for 3 Year Faculty Development Model - End of life care