In this course, the definition of palliative care, the group of patients requiring palliative care, the philosophy and principles of care services and the concept of palliative care will be explained to the students.

The main aim of multi-dimensional patient assessment is to determine how we can help the patient and to plan the necessary interventions. In this course, the way of an effective evaluation and the anamnesis receiving method about history of the patient, lifestyle, family, disease symptoms and physical (pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, etc.), psychological (anxiety, depression, etc.) and social problems will be explained.

In individuals with advanced disease, many symptoms affecting all organ systems can be found together and these symptoms can be changed at every stage of the disease. In this course, the evaluation and the intervention of the most common symptoms such as pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue and anxiety will be discussed

Supporting the family and caregivers and eliminating the burden of care is one of the primary objectives of palliative care practices. In this course, the aims of family support in palliative care, objective load dimensions, factors that affect caregiving burden, factors affecting caregiving request, evaluation of readiness to care and factors related to caregiver's quality of life will be explained.

In this course, the principles and applications of research are presented to students and information is given about the logic and applications of research design, the relationship between theory and research, various data collection and analysis techniques and presentation of findings.

Non-thesis Master's Degree students will prepare a graduation term project on a topic of their choice.