GPs play a major role in providing palliative care within communities given they often have well-established relationships with those seeking palliative and end-of-life care.
This webinar provides practical guidelines to GPs on ethics and decision making at end-of-life. It will cover clinical ethics, ethical issues at end of life and aim to identify each individual’s ethical underpinnings when dealing with death, dying and end-of-life decisions. The webinar will also provide an overview of advance care planning and its importance in decision-making, as well as the impact advance care planning can have on grief and bereavement.
Presenters:
Dr. Linda Sheahan (SESLHD Palliative Care Physician and Clinical Ethics Consultant), Dr. Chris Pene, Palliative Medicine Specialist, SVHN, and Brendan Myhill, Bereavement Research Officer, SLHD.
Learning outcomes:
• Demonstrate what clinical ethics is, and how it relates to clinical decision making.
• Assess understanding of death, dying and end of life decision making in the context of their ethical underpinnings.
• Identify and discuss common ethical issues arising at end of life.
• Identify when to initiate advance care planning discussion.
• Describe process of developing an Advance Care Directive.
• Understand how healthcare at End of Life can impact bereavement experiences
• Understand the relationship between Advance Care Planning and bereavement experiences.
Target audience: GPs, Nurses, Practice Staff, and Practice Managers.
