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Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End
This homestudy course reviews how the process of aging, frailty, and dying unfolds. It discusses and outlines how people experience the end of their lives.
15 CEU hours Atul Gawande Free retakes
CCM Credit Hours: 7CDMS Credit Hours: 7
Pre-Approved for
CA BRNCCMCDMSCE Broker ProviderCLCPCOHN/COHN-SCOPS-KTCRCCCRRNCVRPDelaware BONRNsVRA-Canada
Course Overview
“Beautifully written . . . In his newest and best book, Gawande . . . has provided us with a moving and clear-eyed look at aging and death in our society, and at the harms we do in turning it into a medical problem, rather than a human one.”
- The New York Review of Books
“Masterful . . . Essential . . . For more than a decade, Atul Gawande has explored the fault lines of medicine . . . combining his years of experience as a surgeon with his gift for fluid, seemingly effortless storytelling . . . In Being Mortal, he turns his attention to his most important subject yet.”
-Chicago Tribune
Course Format
Home study- Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.
Course Objectives
- Review how the process of aging, frailty and dying unfolds and explain how people experience the end of their lives.
- Discuss clinician's ultimate limitations, failures and successes in their efforts to deal with patients as their life draws to a close.
- Explain how an elderly person's ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life - all the way to the very end.
- Discuss the transformation of nursing homes from "total institutions" which emphasizes only "safety" to a semblance of home that creates a life of worth and freedom for the residents.
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Customer Testimonial
"I liked the opportunity to read the text, answer test questions ahead of time and work at my own pace. Also, the cost was very reasonable."
Course Outline
1
Introduction
2
The Independent Self
3
Dependence
4
Assistance
5
A Better Life
6
Letting Go
7
Hard Conversations
8
Courage
9
Epilogue
Final assessment
Approvals & accreditation
AAACEUs is an approved provider for the following boards. This course counts toward continuing education for 13 credentials.
Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End