School of Nursing seminar series: So what’s brought you in today?” A mixed methods approach to determining potentially avoidable presentations to the Emergency Department amongst patients with palliative care needs Event as iCalendar
11 October 2012
1 - 2pm
Venue: Seminar Room 503-126, Level 1, Building 503, 85 Park Road, Grafton
With a globally increasing ageing population, end of life care needs are becoming more important. The Emergency Department (ED) was established as a specialty to provide life sustaining treatment for traumatic and acute events. However, often patients with longstanding chronic illnesses and those with terminal illness are high users of the ED.
The ED has received little research attention with regards to improving end of life care and therefore very little is known about palliative care management within ED settings, both in New Zealand and internationally, including the true incidence of palliative care presentations. It is likely that the use of ED amongst patients who are near the end of life reflects gaps in community services. However, no previous research has explored this issue and crucially no studies could be identified that have examined ED use from the perspective of patients with palliative care needs. It is within this context that I have developed my PhD study to examine the incidence of potentially voidable presentations amongst patients with palliative care needs.
Joanne Wong
is a Registered Nurse with an Emergency Department and Forensic Mental Health background. She is a provisional PhD candidate with the School of Nursing and is supervised by Professor Merryn Gott and Associate Professor Andrew Jull.
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