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Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End (HM4015)


Textbook: Being Mortal

Author(s): Atul Gawande


Pre-Approved for: ACM, CA BRN, CCM, CDMS, CE Broker Provider, CLCP, COHN/COHN-S, COPS-KT, CRCC, CRRN, CVRP, Delaware BON, RNs, VRA-Canada


Credit Hours: 15


CCM Credit Hours: 7


CDMS Credit Hours: 7


Course Format

Homestudy, Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

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 Objectives

  1. Review how the process of aging, frailty and dying unfolds and explain how people experience the end of their lives.

  2. Discuss clinician's ultimate limitations, failures and successes in their efforts to deal with patients as their life draws to a close.

  3. Explain how an elderly person's ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life - all the way to the very end.

  4. 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.

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

Course Price
w/ Book

$146.00

Customer Testimonial

I truly enjoyed reading the book "Being Mortal". At times it made me literally laugh out loud. It also made me cry a lot. I was the caregiver for my disabled mother before she became too much for me to care for at home. I moved her into a nursing home, where she died under suspicious circumstances. My father died peacefully at home under the care of hospice. I have made my end-of-life wishes made know to my own son, as I am getting older and my body is failing me more and more every day. Reading this book truly touched me.
Tuwonda C.
- CCM