A Nursing Symposium

Understanding Death in Critical Care

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The talks below were presented at the 'Understanding Death in Critical Care: A Nursing Symposium' on the 9th December 2016 in Wellington Regional Hospital. They are available below for download in Powerpoint or PDF format.
The copyright of these resources remains with the original author/presenter of each talk.





The Ethics & Practice of Treatment Withdrawal
Dr. Emma Merry
How Nurses Can Shape End of Life Care: Research & Practice
Dr. Tracy Long-Sutehall
The Physiology of Death & Dying
Dr. Alex Psirides
Legal Issues Arising from the Provision of End of Life Care
Iris Reuvecamp
The provision of family-centred intensive care bereavement support in ANZ (Journal paper)
Dr. Marion Mitchell, Dr. Maureen Coombs, Krista Wetzig
Intensive care bereavement practices across New Zealand and Australian intensive care units (Journal paper)
Dr. Maureen Coombs, Dr. Marion Mitchell, Stephen James & Krista Wetzig