Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.38 - Registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing

51.3819 - Palliative care nurse/nursing

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares registered nurses to provide a combination of active and compassionate therapies intended to comfort and support patients and their families who are living with life-threatening illness. These programs include courses in pathophysiology, palliative care processes, pain management, pharmacology, loss, grief, death, and bereavement.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • palliative care nurse
  • palliative care nursing

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • critical care nursing(51.3814)
  • hospice and palliative medicine - fellowship(61.0205)
  • palliative care nurse practitioner(60.0734)
  • registered nurse(51.3801)