Video Library
In this library experts in end-of-life care discuss the importance and benefits of the End-of-Life Essentials project and clinical stories from their personal experience including an Intensive Care perspective.
The benefits of End-of-Life Essentials
Professor Katherine Clark
Medical Director of Palliative Care, Calvary Mater Newcastle
Topic: The benefits of the End-of-Life Essentials e-learning for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
Professor Robyn Clark
Nursing Acute Care and Cardiovascular Research, Flinders University
Topic: How the End-of-Life Essentials education enables health care practitioners to build their knowledge on the important aspects of end-of-life care practice.
Ms Meg Brassil
Topic: From a consumer perspective about the value of End-of-Life Essentials in making real improvements to the end-of-life care that patients, families and carers receive.
Professor Imogen Mitchell discusses an ICU perspective
Professor Imogen Mitchell
Dean, ANU Medical School & Senior ICU Specialist, Canberra Hospital
Topic: The 'death-denying' culture that we live in and the challenges this has for the intensive care unit.
Professor Imogen Mitchell
Dean, ANU Medical School & Senior ICU Specialist, Canberra Hospital
Topic: Building a consensus with patients and their families in the intensive care unit.
Professor Imogen Mitchell
Dean, ANU Medical School & Senior ICU Specialist, Canberra Hospital
Topic: Using triggers to initiate conversations at the end of life. She also discusses the opportunities and challenges for recognising dying in the ICU setting.
A paediatric perspective of end-of-life care
Dr Anthony Herbert
Director, Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Division of Medicine Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
Topic: Advice for hospital staff regarding patients and families, including siblings, involved in paediatric end-of-life care.
Sara Fleming
Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Lead Paediatric Paediatric Palliative Care, Women's and Children's Hospital
Topic: Care for staff working in paediatric end-of-life care.
Lauren Morgan
Art Therapist Paediatric Palliative Care, Women's and Children's Hospital
Topic: Parents and paediatric end-of-life care.