B.R.A.I.N Decision Making Workshop

This workshop is designed for everyday people, caregivers and patients who must make health related decisions for themselves or for someone else.

Overview

This workshop is designed for everyday people, caregivers and patients who must make health related decisions for themselves or for someone else. The workshop aims to share an approach, which can be used by people who are faced with making health related or life altering decisions. 

This program helps people who:

  • Anyone facing health related or life altering decisions

Topics include:

Participants will be introduced to the B.R.A.I.N worksheet and shown how it can be used to explore the Benefits, Risks, Alternatives, personal Intuition and Next Steps associated with making complex and challenging decisions.


Workshop format:

This is an interactive information session of 60 minutes in length.

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More Resources for Decision Making

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Making Informed Consent An Informed Choice

May 17, 2019
Great article on the importance of making sure patients understand the information we share, their choices and are engaged in playing an active role. We need to make sure consent is informed.
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Don’t Be Afraid To Ask

August 8, 2018
One of the strangest things I find about healthcare is that providers will give devastating diagnoses and then move on to treatment options and prognosis 10 seconds later.
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Should Your Doctor Ask What’s On Your Bucket List?

March 26, 2018
A recent study proposes asking about a bucket list as a way to get people to talk about advance directives. Just another example about the importance of building trust and supporting patients’ choices.

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