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Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care

Research - (link to researcher portal)

Self care

Sexuality

Spirituality

Symptoms

Anorexia / Cachexia

Anxiety

Ascites

Bleeding

Bowel obstruction

Congestion

Constipation / diarrhea

Cough

Dehydration

Delirium

Depression

Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology: Clinical guidelines Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) has developed several clinical practice guidelines and standards of...

Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention Website dedicated to the prevention of suicide and supporting individuals grieving a death due to suicide. Complete listing...

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

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...

Depression in the Terminally Ill One of many symptom management guidelines developed by the Fraser Health Hospice Palliative Care Program.

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

A Pan-Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline: Assessment of Psychosocial Health Care Needs of the Adult Cancer Patient This guideline provides professional health care providers with recommendations regarding the routine, systematic, and standardized...

Reason to Live: Suicide Prevention This website was developed and is supported by the Klinic Community Health Centre, and funded through Manitoba Health. It...

Suicide: Assessment Considerations for Health Care Providers Presentation by advisor for Virtual Hospice clinical team reviews points to consider in assessing suicide risk.

Dyspnea

Fatigue

General

Hypercalcemia

Lymphedema

Mouth care

Myoclonis / Seizures

Nausea / vomiting

Pain

Radiation skin reactions

Spinal cord compression - see Palliative care emergencies

Swallowing

Wounds

4AT Rapid Clinical Test for Delirium This website features the 4AT delirium screening tool including references, case examples, and over 18 language translations...

Accessing cannabis for medical purposes from a licensed producer Learn how to access cannabis for your medical purposes from licensed producers under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes...

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...

Cannabis in Canada About cannabis, process of legalization, health effects, addiction, medical use, applying for industry licenses, consumer...

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...

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions This video series, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions (HPMQ), answers tough questions you may come across while caring...

Marie Curie: Palliative Care Knowledge Zone This area of the website offers a range of information on palliative, end of life care to support and inform the clinical...

Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation...

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...

Pruritus - 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...