Heart failure patients’ use of hospital services in the last year of life - timely... In the final blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Dr Gursharan Singh, Research Fellow at QUT, highlights why understanding hospital-based service use by... Read more... 9/09/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: Accessing services and support | Oceanic 2021 Views: 1992
What matters most to patients with palliative care needs when receiving care within... The centrality of the role of hospitals in provision of palliative care is often not well recognised and care provision can be suboptimal. Dr Claudia Virdun, Senior Research... Read more... 6/08/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | End-of-Life Essentials Views: 1467
Accepting and supporting death in acute care is a needed first step 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 and support to those who die in... Read more... 16/06/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | End-of-Life Essentials Views: 1109
End-of-life care in emergency departments: things we need to know Many patients at the end of life are sent to Emergency Departments (EDs). In this blog, Tomi Omoya a Registered Nurse and PhD Candidate at Flinders University,... Read more... 21/04/2021 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: Research Views: 1072