Tools for Practice

Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.
Assessment tools
99 Common Questions (And More) About Hospice Palliative Care: A Nurses Handbook, 3rd ed.
This handbook was written to enhance the professional caregiver’s capacity and confidence in offering hospice palliative... read more...
Assessing Pain in Older Adults with Dementia
A tool for assessing pain with cognitively impaired older persons and information on its use. Published by the Hartford Institute... read more...
Association of Hospice and palliative care Chaplains: Self Assessment Tool
This is a link to a chaplaincy self assessment tool developed by the AHPCC. read more...
Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool (BRAT)
The Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool, or BRAT, is a psychosocial assessment tool used by care team members to communicate... read more...
NewCANHELP (Canadian Health Care Evaluation Project) Questionaire
The CANHELP (Canadian Health Care Evaluation Project) questionnaire was originally designed/ used by researchers to measure... read more...
CHESS Assessment Scale
The Changes in Health, End-stage disease and Signs and Symptoms (CHESS)  scale was designed to identify individuals at risk... read more...
Companion Booklet: Medical Care of the Dying, 4th ed.
This pocket-sized version contains a selection of tables, graphs, and charts from various chapters of the Medical Care of... read more...
ESAS-r: Edmonton Symptom Assessment System Revised
The revised Edmonton Symptom Assessment System Revised (ESAS-r) (1) replaces the ESAS (2). The ESAS-r is freely available... read more...
FICA Spiritual History Tool
Dr Christine Puchalski and a group of primary care physicians developed this tool to help healthcare professionals address... read more...
Geriatric eToolkit
An intercollaborative initiative by the Centre for Studies in Aging & Health [CSAH] in Kingston, Ontario, the Geriatric eToolkit... read more...
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