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Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC) This guide for nurses provides key information relevant to the nursing care of patients with advanced (or end-stage) chronic...

iPall- Heart Failure Palliative Care Assessment Tool The clinical practice tool has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms and atempting to...

Nursing Care of Dyspnea:The 6th Vital Sign in Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Registered Nurses Association of Ontario best nursing practice guidelines addressing the nursing assessment and management...

Pain & Symptom Management Guideline BC Cancer Agency has produced a guideline that addresses the assessment and management of pain and other common symptoms...

Palliation of End-stage Heart Disease: Three Things You Need to Know Evidenced-based powerpoint presentation addressing symptom management, prognostication/goals of care, and palliative care...

Refractory Symptoms and Palliative Sedation Therapy Guideline This guideline provides recommendations for the ongoing assessment and symptom management of adult patients (age 19 years...

Symptom Management Guideline: Dyspnea

Symptom Management in Comfort End-of-Life Care of Pneumonia An approach to managing terminal pneumonia, a common end-of-life complication in many progressive chronic conditions, including...

The Champlain Region Palliative Sedation Therapy Clinical Practice and Medication Guidelines (2018) The guidelines were developed to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate use of palliative sedation therapy and to enhance...

The Management of Dyspnea in Cancer Patients: A Clinical Practice Guideline This clinical practice guideline reviews the clinical evidence re: the treatment of dyspnea in cancer patients and provides...

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

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

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Guidelines for Discharge Planning for First Nations Patients Returning to Home Community for Palliative Care The Palliative Care Program of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has developed " Guidelines for Discharge Planning...

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