What matters most to patients with palliative... The centrality of the role of hospitals in provision of palliative care is often not well recognised and care provision can be suboptimal. Dr... Read more... 6/08/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | End-of-Life Essentials Views: 1972
Accepting and supporting death in acute care... In a three-part blog series, End-of-Life Care Nurse Practitioner Jeanette Lacey provides insight into her role in improving the quality of care... Read more... 16/06/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | End-of-Life Essentials Views: 1488
End-of-life care in emergency departments:... Many patients at the end of life are sent to Emergency Departments (EDs). In this blog, Tomi Omoya a Registered Nurse and PhD... Read more... 21/04/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: Research Views: 1348
Death is a part of life - the core of... In the sixth blog for our National Palliative Care Project series Associate Professor Kim Devery, Project Lead and Ms Deb Rawlings, Co-Lead of... Read more... 22/10/2020 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: Education and training | National Palliative Care Projects Views: 1307
CPR discussions and decisions: a necessary... Discussions about CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) are difficult because they confront the person with death. However, when cardiac arrest... Read more... 9/06/2020 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: ELDAC | Advance care planning Views: 1929
Less can be more: Researching non-beneficial... Advances in medicine mean health care professionals can prolong life, yet some treatments have a low chance of providing tangible benefits to some... Read more... 23/07/2019 | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Research Views: 1575