Hospice & Palliative Care
Requirements
Description
The concentration in hospice and palliative care provides future health and health care workers with the skills and competencies they need to lead and manage chronic and end-of-life care through a variety of settings, including home health care.
Students learn from interprofessional instructors who are involved in hospice and palliative care as physicians, social workers, nurses and bereavement counselors and who work with children and adults as well as meet with palliative care and hospice patients. Students receive specialized instruction on dementia and Alzheimer's disease and learn about how these contemporary issues are burdening our health care system under its current structure.
In addition, students have the opportunity to shadow health professionals and learn about their roles through field experience. Students finish their program of study by completing an internship at Hospice of the Valley, affording them the opportunity to help provide non-clinical care needs to patients and their families.
Requirements
- Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours.
- All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.
- Depending on a student's undergraduate program of study, prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this concentration.
- *MED 484 Internship is directed by Dr. Gillian Hamilton at Hospice of the Valley. A minimum ASU cumulative GPA of 3.00 is required to enroll.
Required Courses - 12 credit hours
MED 325 Elements of Hospice and Palliative Care
MED 375 Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
MED 475 Palliative Care: Managing Complex Serious Illness
MED 484 Internship*
Elective Courses - 6 credit hours
HSC 410 Supporting the Health of Older Adults
HSC 412 Health Issues in Later Life
MED 445 Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease
PSY 447 Psychology of Aging
SOC 400 Perspectives on Aging
SOC 418 Aging and the Life Course
IDS Core Course Information
All Interdisciplinary Studies students are required to complete a 9 credit-hour core and 9 credit hours of context/application courses.
Required Courses (9 credit hours):
- IDS 201 Intellectual Fusion (recommended for freshman/sophomore students)
- Prerequisites: None
OR
- IDS 301 Becoming Interdisciplinary (3) (recommended for transfer students and/or students declaring IDS in their junior or senior year)
- Prerequisites: Interdisciplinary Studies major
- Prerequisites: Interdisciplinary Studies major
- IDS 302 Integration Skills (3)
- Prerequisite(s): Interdisciplinary Studies major; IDS 201 or 301 with C or better
- IDS 401 Integration: Experiential Learning (3) (requires application)
- Prerequisites: IDS 201 or 301 with C or better; IDS 302 with C or better; minimum 2.00 GPA; minimum of two courses completed in each concentration area
- Prerequisites: IDS 201 or 301 with C or better; IDS 302 with C or better; minimum 2.00 GPA; minimum of two courses completed in each concentration area
Context courses (6 credit hours)
Choose two Integrative Context courses from the following (3 credit hours each):
- IDS 310: Integration: Cultural Contexts, C
- IDS 311: Integration: Global Contexts, G, SB
- IDS 312: Integrative Perspectives on Change
- IDS 313: Integrative Perspectives on a Changing World
- IDS 314: Integrative Perspectives on Cultural Dynamics, SB
- IDS 315: Integration: Social Contexts, SB
- IDS 316: Integration: Humanities Contexts, HU
Application courses (3 credit hours)
Choose any IDS Application course from the following (3 credit hours each):
- IDS 140: The Nature of Knowledge Systems
- IDS 302: Integration Skills
- IDS 310: Integration: Cultural Contexts, C
- IDS 311: Integration: Global Contexts, G, SB
- IDS 312: Integrative Perspectives on Change
- IDS 313: Integrative Perspectives on a Changing World
- IDS 314: Integrative Perspectives on Cultural Dynamics, SB
- IDS 315: Integration: Social Contexts, SB
- IDS 316: Integration: Humanities Contexts, HU
- IDS 484: Elective Internship
Transfer to ASU transfer.asu.edu
- How credits transfer to ASU transfer.asu.edu/credits
- How to transfer to ASU from a Two-Year school transfer.asu.edu/ CommunityColleges
Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) transfer students transfer.asu.edu/maricopa
- Courses may fulfill Arizona General Education Curriculum (AGEC) or Associate’s degree requirements, consult with your community college academic advisor for details.
- MCCCD course transfer equivalencies are listed here; they may be applied toward this concentration (maximum of six credits or two courses).
- Information listed was current for this catalog year at the time of printing, consult transfer.asu.edu/maricopa for verification.
YEAR
2022-23
CAMPUS
Downtown Phoenix
ADVISING
Interdisciplinary Studies Advising
cisa.asu.edu/advising
All appointments:
480-965-4464
Downtown Phoenix
Arizona Center, Suite 380
Polytechnic
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Tempe
Urban Systems Engineering
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480-965-4464
DARS CODE
NHHPCEMPH
COLLEGE/SCHOOL
College of Health Solutions
CONCENTRATION CONTACT
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