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Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.

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Advance care planning / Decision making

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Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Culture

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care

The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying This book offers insights and anecdotal stories about how humor can be present and also embraced in difficult times, particularly...

The Nature of Suffering and The Goals of Nursing This book describes the suffering that nurses witness in patients, families, colleagues, and themselves. The audience includes...

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work Comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally...

The role of social workers in palliative, end of life and bereavement care This resource aims to ensure that people benefit from good social work at the end of their life, and that those close to...

Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role This book brings together experts from nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide insights and information...

Transitions in Dying and Bereavement: A Psychosocial Guide for Hospice and palliative care Written by leading experts at Victoria Hospice, Transitions is an award-winning professional resource for hospice and palliative...

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers a practical book about living with a terminal illness. He provides...

When a parent dies by suicide...What kids want to know The Centre of Addiction and Mental Health has developed a brochure which will help prepare you to take the first step of...

When All Is Said and Done: An Introduction to the Family Meeting This program is devoted to the terminally ill and their family members, demonstrating ways in which dying can become a time...

When Autumn Comes: Creating Compassionate Care for the Dying Based on her years of experience as a hospice volunteer, the author offers practical advice and thoughtful reflection on...