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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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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

Dyspnea

Fatigue

General

Hypercalcemia

Lymphedema

Mouth care

Basic Mouth Care: Caring for Those with Dentures/False Teeth/No Teeth Basic mouth care described for someone with dentures, false teeth or no teeth.

Basic Mouth Care: Caring for those with natural teeth This information page outlines how to provide good mouth care when someone has their own teeth.

Daily Mouth Care: Special Considerations Information sheet that provides tips for providing mouth care appropriate for a variety of clinical sitautions including:...

Dementia and Oral Health: How to Help Sufferers Care for Their Teeth Carefree Dental is a website that provides specific dental and oral health information for all individuals. This specific...

Dental Recipes Simple recipes for mouth care solutions that you can make when providing care at home.

Mouth Care Helpers for Caregivers Information sheet describing a wide variety of dental products available to facilitate mouth care.

Mouth Care Videos The Centre of Community Oral Health, University of Manitoba - Faculty of Dentistry/School of Dental Hygiene, have produced...

Oral Health: Nursing Assessment and Intervention (Nursing Best Practice Guideline) The target users of this Nursing Best Practice Guideline are nurses working with adult populations in various practice settings.

Symptom Management Guideline: Oral Mucositis This clinical practice guideline discusses contributing factors, assessment and management of oral mucositis in patients...

Symptom Management Guidelines (Related to Nutrition) BC Cancer Agency has produced Symptom Management Guidelines which address common problems related to nutrition including anorexia,...

Myoclonis / Seizures

Nausea / vomiting

Pain

Radiation skin reactions

Spinal cord compression - see Palliative care emergencies

Swallowing

Wounds

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

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

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...