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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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Indigenous people

Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

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

Nursing Support for Families of Dying Patients What are the feelings and needs of families of patients dying on acute hospital wards? Are they adequately managed? How do...

Oncotalk Website designed to assist medical professionals with the difficult conversations around dying and end of life care. It contains...

Optimising the role and value of the interdisciplinary team: Providing person-centred end of life care Effective interdisciplinary teamwork, with its emphasis on person-centred communication, is increasingly seen as a way of...

Orienting Ourselves to Hospice Palliative Care Work This short video scenario is intended as a reflective tool to help health care providers be centred and culturally-sensitive...

Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide In the aftermath of the death of a child, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that...

Patient Dignity Inventory The Patient Dignity Inventory is an assessment tool that is easily administered (as either a self report or an instrument...

Practical Thoughts, Tips & Questions to Enhance Psychosocial Care Practical thoughts and tips to enhance psychosocial care offered by all members of the inter-disciplinary team in end-of-life...

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Summit Recommendations This executive summary represents a condensed version of the recommendations put forward by the speakers at the 2016 Pregnancy...

Preparing Children for Funeral and Memorials Family rituals following a death are significant events in an individual’s life, and children are no exception. Families...

Principles and Practice of Grief Counselling The book describes the unique aspects of grief as a normal response to loss, and views the goal of counseling bereaved individuals...