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WEBINAR: Advance Care Planning: an essential component of healthcare in the 21st century

Thu 23rd March 2023 @ 7:00 pm

“Two weeks in ICU can save you an hour of conversation.”

Sydney North Health Network invites General Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Residential Aged Care Facility staff to a webinar on Advance Care Planning with Associate Professor Will Cairns.

The presentation will explore the role of Advance Care Planning (ACP) in healthcare. Modern medicine can extend life and enhance quality, at times it may prolong life with little or no ‘quality’ of life as defined by the person living it. ACP helps patients, families (and healthcare workers) navigate the maze of choices they are faced with by exploring values, goals, hopes and preferences, and matching them with the medical interventions available.

While ACP may seem time consuming, complex treatment for serious illnesses requires patient understanding of the nature of their illness, likely benefits and potential burdens of treatment. Many people approaching end of life have clear ideas about how they wish to be cared for, and their clinicians need to know.

ACP is a dialogue between the clinician and their patient (or their substitute decision-maker). The implementation of ACP requires that patient choices are discussed, documented then communicated to those who are providing their care.

No doctor is better equipped for supporting the patient through the lifelong process of ACP than their GP who has known them for a long time.

DATE:
Thu 23rd March 2023


TIME:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm


RACGP CPD POINTS:
An Education Activity is pending with the RACGP - Activity Number 441580

SPEAKERS:

Associate Professor Will Carins | Palliative Medicine Specialist

Associate Professor Will Cairns OAM is an Associate Professor at James Cook University in Brisbane and Consultant at Emeritus Palliative Medicine at Townville University Hospital, where he has he has lived and worked in since 1978.

Among other things, he has been a member of the board of PCQ (PCAQ at the time), President of the ANZSPM, President of the Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine, coordinated the Application to the Australian Medical Council for the recognition the specialty of Palliative Medicine, and was a member of the AMC writing group for Good Medical Practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia.

In recent years he has written broadly on issues of care at the end of life and the role of palliative care in disaster management, including the challenges of triage when that becomes necessary in disasters such as pandemics. Will is a founding member of the Australian COVID-19 Palliative Care Working Group.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

General Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Residential Aged Care Facility staff working in the Sydney North Health Network region.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
  • Describe the important role of Advance Care Planning (ACP) across the age spectrum
  • Explain how ACP supports patients to receive the care they prefer, and doctors to deliver it
  • Engage and communicate with patients, and their families, in order to achieve best and/or preferred healthcare outcomes from the options that are available.
  • Recognise the various ACP documents in use in your community, and how they are used


ENQUIRIES:

Program Enquiries: The Ageing and Palliative Care Team – (02) 9432 8273  or email ageingwell@snhn.org.au

Education Enquiries: Judy or Robi, Education Coordinators – 9432 8250 or events@snhn.org.au.



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