8 minute Speed Talk Palliative Care Nurses Australia Conference 2022

I did it my way- VAD Stories (#62)

Emilie Petrowski 1 , Darren Pugh 1 , Sandi Olney 1
  1. Palliative Care, Grampians Regional Palliative Care Consortium, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Objective  To produce a video story of  families who have embraced the Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation so that they can communicate their experience to other families and health care professionals.

Outcome  A video will be produced for educational purposes, community engagement, use on palliative care platforms such as CareSearch and Palliative Care Australia, social media and palliative care conference presentations (Palliative Care Nurses Association Biennial Conference 2022 / Grampians Regional Palliative Care Conference ‘Back to the Future’ 2023)

 

Benefits 

  • This video will help families considering VAD and going through the process to prepare and feel supported
  • This video will provide valuable education to other palliative care clinicians and health care staff
  • Break the stigma associated with VAD
  • To highlight the link between palliative care and VAD 
  • Encouraging hard conversations about death 
  • Highlight the importance of our role in "good" deaths