Wednesday, 19 June 2024
6pm – 7pm (NZST – New Zealand time)
4pm – 5pm (AEST – Sydney time)
Webinar via Zoom
Speaker: Elizabeth Blake – Registered Nurse, Te Whatu Ora Waitaha – Canterbury
Elizabeth Blake is a Registered Nurse currently working in the Specialist Mental Health Service, Te Whatu Ora Waitaha – Canterbury as a Community Case Manager for adults with enduring mental illness. She has a particular interest in matters relating to rights, unconscious bias, equity, capacity, informed consent, and communication.
This event is a webinar. It might be of interest to people with learning (intellectual) disability, families and whānau, disability service professionals, and health professionals.
Elizabeth Blake will talk about her research which was a literature review about how Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders are used with people who have a learning disability. A DNR order is a form doctors fill out when they do not think a person will benefit from receiving CPR: This is cardiopulmonary resuscitation – a way to try to restart a person’s heart rhythm and breathing when these stop. This can happen when they are very sick or at the end of their life. During the COVID pandemic, a lot of people reported that DNR orders were not being used correctly or fairly for people with learning disability, so we wanted to find out more about how they were being used. Elizabeth will talk about what was learned, and what we can do to make sure that DNR orders are always used correctly.