ASSESSMENT - The Great Debate
Provide nursing care for clients requiring palliative care
Questions/Tasks
Learners are to form a debate team and conduct a debate on one of the following topics -
1. The use of Opioid Medication in Palliative Care
Or
2. Euthanasia should it be legalized?
Each debate team will consist of 6 people.
One group will advocate for, the other group will advocate against.
Each participant will be required to speak for a minimum of 2 minutes.
Debate running time maximum of 15 minutes for both teams.
Some suggested ideas to be used for arguments both for and against could be as suggested below -
- Legal and Human Rights
- Religious Beliefs
- Moral Beliefs
- Pros and Cons of Use
- Facts and Myths
- Comfort vs Pain
- Quantity vs Quality of life
- Summarise Argument.
Suggested Resources - Pallative Care Australia.