Topic
End-of life law
Content
The online course comprises thirteen modules covering the following topics:
- The role of law in end of life care
- Capacity and consent to medical treatment
- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment
- Advance care planning and advance care directives
- Substitute decision-making for medical treatment
- Legal protection for administering pain and symptom relief
- Children and end of life decision-making
- Futile or non-beneficial treatment
- Emergency treatment for adults
- Managing conflict
- Voluntary assisted dying
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and end of life law
- Inclusive and of life decision-making for diverse populations.
Depth
Intermediate to advanced
Target audience
Medical specialists including GPs and trainee specialists involved in end-of-life decision making, junior medical practitioners in the hospital setting, medical degree students, nurses, and allied health professionals
Time to complete
15-30 minute per module
Authors
Queensland University of Technology; Professor Ben White, Professor Lindy Wilmott, Professor Patsy Yates, Dr Shih-Ning Then
Comments
The course aims to address current gaps in clinicians’ knowledge of end-of-life law. Course content includes an overview of the law and its application to clinical practice, case studies, legal case examples, and self-assessment activities. The online training is complemented by the End of Life Law in Australia website.
This activity is accredited for CPD hours by RACGP, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM), and College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM).
Continuing professional development points may be available for nurses and allied health professionals completing the relevant course.
Registration required
Yes
Payment required
No
Student support
No
Certificate
Yes
Country of origin
Australia
Web Address
https://palliativecareeducation.com.au/course/index.php?categoryid=5
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