One of the benefits of providing multidisciplinary care is a greater adherence to the relevant care standards and guidelines.
Palliative care provision in Australia is guided by:
Also highly relevant to providing care in this context are:
- National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care
- Aged Care Quality Standards.
These standards are covered in more depth in Core Module 1: Activity 13.
Thinking Points
- Review the National Palliative Care Standards and identify:
- The standards that inform a multidisciplinary approach to care
- How achievement of the standards can be monitored by the multidisciplinary care team.