NURS 519 Strategies for End of Life Care Sample Papers, Week by Week

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NURS 519 is Liberty's MSN course on caring for patients and families at the end of life, and it asks for a different written product nearly every week. The samples below follow the course from the opening spiritual and cultural assessments through forums on serious-illness conversations and advance care planning, two case studies, a research article paper on a nondrug pain intervention, an ethical dilemma paper on tube feeding in advanced dementia and a closing question set on what dying patients try to tell us.

CourseNURS 519 Strategies for End of Life Care (NURS519)
Credit hours3
ProgramMSN
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published NURS 519 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What NURS 519 covers

The course reads Matzo and Sherman's palliative care nursing text alongside two shorter books, Golden's Swallowed by a Snake on grief and Callanan and Kelley's Final Gifts on the communication of the dying, and its description promises care for the whole person delivered with the love of Christ. Two forums each require a 500-word thread supported by two citations and a single 250-word reply with one, and the Bible and course texts count as sources.

The larger papers run three to five pages. Two case studies answer questions about cases the course provides, the research article paper applies a current study of a pain intervention from the textbook, and the 200-point ethical dilemma paper works through a decision-making model with at least five peer-reviewed articles from the past five years. Question-and-answer sets in Weeks 2 and 8 require answers of at least 150 words grounded in sources rather than opinion.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes NURS 519 Strategies for End of Life Care this way:
The focus of this course is to explore the multifaceted role of caring for the patient who has reached the end of life. Particular attention is given to providing sufficient knowledge to assure that the student will be prepared to facilitate the patient's comfort and quality of life. Other areas include ethical / legal issues, cultural perspectives on death and dying, grief, and death. Course content emphasizes the respectful treatment of the entire individual and the delivery of care with the love of Christ. (Elective course)

NURS 519 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Spiritual Assessment (25) and Cultural Assessment (75) from course templates100Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Discussion Board Forum 1: 500-word thread with 2 citations and one 250-word reply with 1; Questions and Answers 1 (100)100Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Discussion Board Forum 2100Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Case Study 1: answers to questions on a provided case, 3 to 5 pages100Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5Case Study 2 after reading Golden's Swallowed by a Snake, 3 to 5 pages100Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Research Article paper on a pain intervention from Matzo and Sherman, 3 to 5 pages100Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Ethical Dilemma Paper following each step of the Decision Making Model, 5 peer-reviewed articles from the past 5 years200Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Questions and Answers 2 after reading Callanan and Kelley's Final Gifts, answers of 150 or more words100Read the Week 8 sample

Where NURS 519 papers lose points

Papers in this course lose points when answers rest on personal opinion without citations, which the guide specifically rules out for the question sets, and when the ethical dilemma paper skips a step of the decision model or leans on articles older than five years. Assessments lose points when they describe a culture or faith in general terms instead of recording what the person actually said.

Using a NURS 519 sample well

Read the samples for how each answer is grounded in a source and connected to the patient or family in front of you. The cases, assessment templates and questions in your course shell are the ones to answer; these pages show the depth, tone and evidence each one needs.

NURS 519 questions, answered

What books does NURS 519 use?

Matzo and Sherman's Palliative Care Nursing is the main text, with Golden's Swallowed by a Snake read for the Week 5 case study and Callanan and Kelley's Final Gifts read for the final question set.

How long are the NURS 519 papers?

The two case studies and the research article paper each run three to five pages without the title and reference pages, and the ethical dilemma paper requires at least five peer-reviewed articles published in the past five years.

Can I cite the Bible in NURS 519?

Yes. The guide lists the required textbooks, the Bible and peer-reviewed journal articles as acceptable sources for discussion forum threads and replies.

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