Attendance on the course will achieve the following learning outcomes:

• Understand the role of the Registered Nurse in Verification of Death
  and the conditions set by the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) when
  undertaking this role
• Identify the circumstances when it would be appropriate and helpful for a Registered Nurse to be able to fulfil this role
• Differentiate between verification and certification of death
• Outline the differences between expected death and other patterns of dying
• Explain the terms palliative care, terminal care, end of life care, dying and death
• Give clinical descriptions of systemic death, cellular death, brain death and brain stem death
• List the accepted clinical signs of death
• Demonstrate competency in carrying out the clinical observations required to correctly verify death
• Identify the documentation that needs to be completed before, during and after verification of expected death, according to local policy