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.