Nursing Education in Thanatology

This important new book focuses on the practical considerations involved in including thanatology in the nursing curriculum. Authorities illustrate how prepared health care professionals who are educated about death and dying more effectively assist patients and/or their families during an emotionally difficult time. Learn the basics—from professionals who have taught nursing students—about developing developing a program in thanatology for nursing students. There are valuable chapters that describe the specific thanatology curricula at several different schools; provide techniques for incorporating such topics as cremation, euthanasia, grieving, and near-death experiences into the curriculum; discuss the role of the LPN in caring for the terminally ill and their families; and address the use computer-assisted instruction in death education.