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In palliative care, a team approach to resolving conflicts and
ethical dilemmas is vital. The involvement of the interdisciplinary
team and the specialist palliative care service will enhance the
opportunity for all points of view to be considered.
The Australian and New
Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine have put out some broad
guidelines to guide palliative care decision making when addressing
some of the issues you may meet in palliative care practice. These
are:
- Informed consent
- Hydration and nutrition
- Limitations of treatments
- Voluntary euthanasia
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Tobacco
- Clinical decision making and the palliative care
interdisciplinary team
- Resource allocation and the terminally ill
- Palliative medicine research
For more information including fact sheets and tips on many
ethical areas, end of life decisions and guidance when there are
advocacy and/or guardianship aspects to decision making refer to
Ethics.
The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne provide an overview of
bioethics as applied to paediatric palliative care. This gives
important guidance for those providing palliative care to children.
It also provides information that can be considered in any
situation where decisions about care are complicated. Refer
to
Ethics. |
