Reflective Discussion Video about a Request to Hasten Death (Health Care Professionals)

This socio-drama based segment is from The Pallium Project's, first generation Clinical Communication in Hospice Palliative Care instructional video series. The Clinical Communication series is a set of reflective-discussion based discussion videos intended to support a variety of critical reflective conversations in pre-service education and continuing professional development.

This segment can be used to:
1) Discuss common issues operating in patient-family/provider dynamics that might present and manifest in a request to hasten death;
2) Discuss existential suffering or total pain/suffering as part of an ongoing palliative assessment process; and
3) Explore the potential for well-intentioned family communication dynamics/expectations to potentially contribute to complicating life closure and existential suffering.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• palliative
• end
• of
• life
• Pallium
• Project
• medical
• education
• assisted
• suicide
• communication
• ALS