Integrating Hospice Palliative Care Education in Core Curriculum

To integrate or not to integrate - that is the question: Hospice Palliative Education in core curriculum.
My preference is a combined approach! It is important to set aside a place where the focus is on Hospice Palliative Care philosophy, principles and practices. A separate course helps to ensure that the message is not diluted and lost in the context of an entire program. On the other hand, how can you discuss respiratory illnesses and not discuss the process of dying at end stage with COPD? How can you teach about the kidney without teaching about dying with renal disease?
The reality is that illnesses need to be followed from diagnosis through to death.
Body systems should likewise be followed from healthy function through to dysfunction and death.
Human development should follow conception through birth, ages and stages and follow through to death.
So my vote is a "combination" of methods for teaching Hospice Palliative Care, whether you are educating Health Care Workers, Practical Nurses or Registered Nurses.
What do you think?
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Kath