End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) has announced the recent release of 10 new and updated online training modules for medical practitioners, nurses, allied and other health professionals, and medical students.
The ELLC training is complimented by End of Life Law in Australia, which provides information on end of life law in each Australian State and Territory.
Topics include:
- The role of law in end of life care
- Medical practitioners
- Nurses
- Allied and other health professionals
- 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
The modules include new clinical case studies, vignettes of clinicians sharing their end of life experiences, and more legal cases and interactive learning.
Certificates of Completion are available for each module. CPD points may be available from your College, Society or professional organisation.
The training can be accessed for free at the ELLC online training portal.