UNCG End-of-Life Care Course University of North Carolina at Greensboro Lessons Learned/Advice to Schools On-line format is the best modality for teaching end-of-life care, allowing for student anonymity and for time to reflect regarding the tough content. Classes with interdisciplinary representation help nursing students understand team work. Peer group work helps students recognize and change attitudes about aging and death much more readily than does the conventional didactic setting. It is important to provide learning activities that are focused both cognitively and affectively, especially in a course that includes such sensitive material. Encourage students to share their current emotional states regarding this topic the first day of class. Counsel students who are actively grieving to think carefully about whether this is the appropriate time to take the course. Warn the students that the learning activities will require quite a bit of sharing with peers, and may be upsetting. On the other hand, the interactions may prove to be healing.   Project Main Page | Grant Innovations Page | AACN Home Copyright © 2004 by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. All rights reserved.