A5001983474- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Ethics in medical practice
- Legal and cultural studies analysis
- Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
Queensland University of Technology
2020-2024
The University of Melbourne
2022
The University of Law
2022
Griffith University
2022
Voluntary assisted dying was legalized in Victoria, Australia June 2019, and the first jurisdiction internationally to legislatively mandate training for doctors conducting eligibility assessments of patients. Mandatory designed as a safeguard ensure compliance within system, so that only eligible patients would gain access voluntary dying.This article outlines development mandated prior undertaking dying. The addressed required legal knowledge, including doctors' roles, duties protections,...
Eligibility criteria determine a crucial question for all voluntary assisted dying frameworks: who can access assistance to die? This article undertakes critical and comparative analysis of these across five legal existing laws in Victoria, Western Australia, Oregon Canada, along with model Bill reform. Key aspects analysed are capacity requirements; the nature medical condition that will qualify; any required suffering. There many similarities between models but there also important...
In 2017, Victoria became the first state in Australia to pass legislation permitting voluntary assisted dying. Under this law, only those people who are near end of their lives may access dying, and because many these require nursing care manage progression illness or symptoms, it will invariably have an impact on practice. The Victorian law includes a series procedural steps as safeguards ensure that operates intended. To support choose dying practice safely within boundaries nurses must be...
Eligibility criteria in voluntary assisted dying legislation determine access to assistance die. This article undertakes the practical exercise of analysing whether each following nine medical conditions can provide an individual with dying: cancer, motor neurone disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary kidney Alzheimer’s anorexia, frailty, spinal cord injury and Huntington’s disease. analysis occurs across five legal frameworks: Victoria, Western Australia, a model Bill Oregon Canada. The...
ObjectiveVoluntary assisted dying (VAD) began in Queensland January 2023 but little is known about its practical operation. This research examined models of care for providing VAD Queensland.MethodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 participants involved delivery across Queensland's 16 Health and Hospital Services (HHSs). Participants included HHS Coordinators, nurse practitioners nurses who acted as administering practitioners, Support Pharmacy Service (QVAD SPS)...
As more countries legalise assisted dying, it is of increasing significance for policy-makers and the medical profession. Doctors are needed patients to access this choice; however, there currently limited participation. Few studies identify what factors, if any, facilitate participation in dying how inter-relationship multiple factors may also influence This study investigates influencing potential doctors who have no in-principle objection Queensland, Australia.