Accessible video about NFR (not for resuscitation) orders for patients and families

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Dr Barbara Hayes and Prof Joe Ibrahim have combined forces to make this elegant simple Youtube resource to explain not for resuscitation orders, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and advance care planning for patients and families.

It works through the differing perspectives of medical teams and patients and their families to explain why sometimes CPR can do more harm than good.

Happy #advancecareplanning week!

Sonia

Research nurse position

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Research Nurse 2019 Final

Lighting a candle in the darkness

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“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” is the mantra of
Dr Bruce Robinson, a lung cancer specialist and professor at the University of Western Australia.

© Nevit Dilmen [CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

© Nevit Dilmen [CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons


Founder of The Fathering Project, Bruce has created an Australian example of a public health approach to end of life care. This approach focuses largely on ‘upstream’ social determinants of health that affect an entire population, while the ‘downstream’ focus relates more to clinical treatment of a ‘patient’ presenting to a health service.

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