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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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Indigenous people

Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Culture

Complementary therapies

Critical care

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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

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care

Research - (link to researcher portal)

Self care

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Spirituality

A Dictionary of Patients’ Spiritual and Cultural Values for Healthcare Professionals A general guide meant to describe beliefs and practices generally found within a particular cultural or religious group.

A Time for Listening and Caring: Spirituality and the Care of the Chronically Ill and Dying Practical guide for those involved in caring for the seriously and chronically ill or dying, presenting current thinking...

Advanced Practice Spiritual Care in Palliative Care This self-guided course, Advanced Practice Spiritual Care in Palliative Care, is for experienced clinical practitioners and...

African American Grief By capturing stories and observing practices, the authors reveal how racism affects quality of life, the manner and rate...

African American Outreach Guide Free online outreach guides for health care providers to enhance access and palliative care in these diverse communities.

Association of Hospice and palliative care Chaplains: Standards of practice For Chaplains and Spiritual Care Advisors This is a link to the Standards of Practice for Chaplains and Spiritual Care Advisors developed by the AHPCC

Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains: Self Assessment Tool This is a link to a chaplaincy self assessment tool developed by the AHPCC.

Association of Hospice and palliative care Chaplains This website (based in the UK) provides information about conferences and courses, standards of practice, books and resources,...

Association of Professional Chaplains This is a link to the Association of Professional Chaplains Web site -- an interfaith professional pastoral care association...

Being Mortal Gawande presents a detailed, but highly readable history of how the meaning of death has changed over the past fifty or sixty...