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Canadian Coalition of Seniors' Mental Health Website with resources for individuals, families and health care providers related to senior's mental health issues including...

Cancer-related Pain Management: A Report of Evidence-Based Recommendations to Guide Practice A clinical practice guideline that provides recommendations for the assessment and management of cancer pain.

Caregiving Strategies for Older Adults with Delirium, Dementia and Depression This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses (RNs and RPNs) who provide care to clients with delirium, dementia...

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...

Client CarePlan - Lower Extremity Lymphedema Management by Subcutaneous Drainage Care has been taken to be thorough in the information presented in this toolkit, however, the information is to be used as...

Constipation - 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...

Constipation Assessment & Management Algorithm (WRHA) Based on the Canadian Consensus Document, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) Palliative Care Program has developed...

Constipation Guideline_St Richard's Hospice_UK_2008 Clinical practice guideline developed by Dr Jane Grundy and Dr Emma Husbands, at St Richard's Hospice in 2008 and reviewed...

Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion (CSCI) Protocol This protocol supports the practice of administering one or more medications via Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion (CSCI)...

Cough Symptom management guideline developed by the Fraser Health Hospice Palliative Care Program.

Fatigue - 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...

Hiccoughs - 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...

Joint Position Statement: The palliative approach to care and the role of the nurse The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) and the Canadian Hospice...

Medication Reconciliation in Home Care (version 2) This guideline has been written to help engage your inter-professional/ interdisciplinary teams in a dynamic approach for...

Nausea and Vomiting - 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...

Pain - 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...

Palliative care COVID-19 communication and symptom guidelines This guidance document was created for healthcare providers, by Manitoba Palliative Care Physicians. It includes the role...

Palliative Care Guidelines - Part 2 (of 3): Pain and Symptom Management This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “presents strategies for the assessment and management of cancer pain, and symptoms...

Palliative Care Guidelines – Part 3 (of 3): Grief and Bereavement This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “addresses the needs of adult patients with incurable cancer or advanced disease...

Parkinson's disease: Diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care The NICE clinical guideline on Parkinson's disease discusses recommendations for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, medications...

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