In this library you will find 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.
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 Kate Swetenham Service Director, Southern Adelaide Palliative Services Topic: The importance of communication skills and self-reflection through a past clinical scenario.
Dr Tracey Giles Senior Lecturer Acute Care Nursing, Flinders University Topic: Talks about the importance of ensuring all health care professionals have the knowledge and skills to ensure that patients and families get the best possible care at the end-of-life.
Ken Hillman Professor of Intensive Care, Liverpool Hospital Topic: Discusses the importance of the End-of-Life Essentials online education in relation to the intensive care unit.
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.
Dr Anthony Herbert Director, Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Division of Medicine Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service Topic: How health professionals can support ‘a good death’ in paediatric end-of-life care.
Sara Fleming Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Lead Paediatric Paediatric Palliative Care, Women's and Children's Hospital Topic: Advice for health professionals providing care to a child 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.
Lauren Morgan Art Therapist Paediatric Palliative Care, Women's and Children's Hospital Topic: Art Therapy in paediatric end-of-life care
Professor Villis Marshall Chair of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) Topic: The Commission’s National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care and it's relationship to End-of-Life Essentials education for acute hospitals.
This module holds all the educational video/film and other resources used in End-of-life Essentials education for acute hospitals which will be useful in clinical teaching, in-service and postgraduate or undergraduate education.
Please log into the modules and ‘Educator Resources’ is the final module.
You only need to register once and this will give you free access to all modules. Please note once your account is inactive for 12 months we may need to delete your account to maintain our database. The CareSearch Learning Management System is the platform that holds the learning modules for End-of-Life Essentials.