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Life and Death Matters (Education Resources) Free online educational resources - podcasts, powerpoint presentations, an instructors's manual, and many more resources...

Living and dying with dignity: The best practice guide to end-of-life care for people with a learning disability There are 1. 5 million people with a learning disability in the UK. They are among the most excluded and disadvantaged people...

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): Ontario As part of its efforts to implement a consistent approach to the MAID process in Ontario, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term...

Navigation: A Guide to Implementing Best Practices in Person-Centred Care The new navigation guide, which builds on a working document released in 2010, describes the different types of navigation...

Nursing Competencies for Nursing Home Culture Change In 2008 Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) collaborated with the Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations...

Oral Health: Nursing Assessment and Intervention (Nursing Best Practice Guideline) The target users of this Nursing Best Practice Guideline are nurses working with adult populations in various practice settings.

The Palliation of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) This PowerPoint presentation reviews the clinical features, epidemiology, pathophysiology and prognostic factors associated...

A palliative approach to care in the last 12 months of life: Best practice guideline This document provides guidance and resources for evidence-based nursing practice for adults (18 years and older) who are...

Palliative Care Guidelines - Part 1 (of 3): Approach to Care This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “presents palliative care assessment and management strategies for primary care...

Palliative Learning Commons This is a link to the Palliative Learning Commons -- a repository for resources on health professional education in the area...

Non-cancer diseases

Psychosocial / spiritual care

Symptoms

Pruritus - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Respiratory Congestion - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes – Evidence Informed Practice Tool This guideline provides recommendations for adult and pediatric clinical practice when Sedation for Palliative Purposes is...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes Guideline – PowerPoint Presentation This is the PowerPoint presentation that outlines details of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority guideline on Sedation...

Severe Bleeding - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Twitching / Myoclonus / Seizures - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning