UPPVJK040 Palliative and Hospice Care

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
10/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Pavel Kliment, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Naděžda Špatenková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(K)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Dying and death is still a taboo subject nowadays.The course objective is to get not only the ability to think and speak about the subject, but to be able to provide information from different disciplines that are related to dying, accompanying the dying and mourning.
Learning outcomes
Professional knowledge: Students can characterize hospice and palliative care, describe their evolution and differences, enumerate myths about dying, explain the problems accompanying the dying and the mourning, clarify the process and make sense of mourning.

Professional skills: Students can interpret the information and carry out practical training in hospices. Under the guidance of practitioners, students will be able to deal with the situations related to the issue in question.

General qualification: Students will be able to apply acquired knowledge and skills in an environment with a dying individual, they will be able to find and convey the information to other people (laity), independently acquire additional knowledge and skills, not only by further studying theoretical knowledge, but also on the basis of their practical findings.
Syllabus
  • 1. Death and dying as a problem in modern society. Culture and death.
  • 2. History and development of hospice care. Ethical aspects of hospice care
  • 3. History and development of palliative care Ethical aspects of palliative care
  • 4. Myths about dying and palliative care
  • 5. Children and death
  • 6. Domestic and institutional care of the dying
  • 7. Palliative care of seniors. Terminally ill people.
  • 8. Accompanying the dying. Communication with experts
  • 9. Needs of the dying, needs of their loved ones, family relationships. Communication in the family
  • 10. The issues of euthanasia. Ethical dilemmas
  • 11. Final arrangements, mourning rites.
  • 12. Mourning – coping with the loss of a loved one, accompanying survivors.
  • 13. Specifics of experiencing grief in children and people with disabilities
Literature
    required literature
  • BYDŽOVSKÝ, Jan a kol. Ošetřovatelství a sociální práce v paliativní péči: učební text pro studenty vysokých a vyšších odborných zdravotnických škol. Praha: Zdravotní ústav Most k domovu, z.ú., 2015. ISBN 978-80-905867-0-3. info
  • KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth. O smrti a umírání. Co by se lidé měli naučit od umírajících. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-802-62091-1-9. info
  • MARKOVÁ, Alžběta. Hospic do kapsy. Praha: Cesta domů, 2015. ISBN 978-80905809-4-7. info
  • SKOPALOVÁ, J. Paliativní a hospicová péče [online]. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2019. Dostupné z: https://elearning.slu.cz/course/index.php?categoryid=45
  • SKOPALOVÁ, J. Vybrané kapitoly ze zdravotnické etiky. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého 2014. 61 s. ISBN 978-80-244-4083-5.
  • ŠPATENKOVÁ, Naděžda a kol. O posledních věcech člověka. Vybrané kapitoly z thanatologie. Praha: Galén, 2014. ISBN 978 -80 -7492 -13. info
  • VOLANDES, Angelo E. Umění rozhovoru o konci života. Praha: Cesta domů, 2015. ISBN 978-80-88126-03-4. info
    recommended literature
  • GOLDMAN, Linda. Jak s dětmi mluvit o smrti. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0819-8. info
  • KABELKA, L. Geriatrická paliativní péče. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2017. ISBN 978-80-204-4225-3.
  • Kol. autorů. Paliativní péče třetího tisíciletí.JOKL, 2014. ISBN 978-80-905419-7-9.
  • STILLION, J. M. and T. ATTIG.Death, dying, and bereavement: contemporary perspectives, institutions, and practices. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8261-7141-2. Dostupné na: https://katalog.knihovna.cestadomu.cz/l.dll?cll~P=158843
  • ŠIKLOVÁ, J. Vyhoštěná smrt. Praha: Kalich, 2013. ISBN 9788070171974.
Teaching methods
Lecture with activation, with discussion. Video analysis. Self-study.
Assessment methods
Credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
By prior agreement with the teacher (via e-mail), students have the opportunity to consult in the MS Teams environment (on-line form).
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Accreditation summer, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2025, recent)
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