Tools for Practice

Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.

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Indigenous people

Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Culture

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Palliative care emergencies

Emergencies in Palliative and Supportive Care Practical guide to emergency situations encountered in palliative care practice. Using a system of icons, and structured...

Metastatic spinal cord compression: diagnosis and management of patients at risk of or with malignant spinal cord compression This Guideline is published in recognition that patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) sometimes suffer...

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...

Spinal Cord Compression One of many symptom management guidelines developed by the Fraser Health Hospice Palliative Care Program.

Surgical Grand Rounds: Palliative Care (presentations) online presentations from Surgical Grand Rounds: Palliative Care at University of Massachusetts, Memorial Medical Center,...

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...

What to do if a hemorrhage occurs: Information for patients and families This handout prepared by Victoria Hospice identifies some information and strategies for patients and families around handling...

When Cancer Spreads to Bone: Spinal Cord Compression Patient/family handout describing what it is, what are the symptoms and how it is treated. Free online access and downloadable...

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care

Research - (link to researcher portal)

Self care

Sexuality

Spirituality

Symptoms

Volunteer

Vulnerable populations