Tools for Practice

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

Advance care planning / Decision making
Speak Up: Advance Care Planning Website designed to inform Canadians about the importance of advance care planning. The website includes a variety of useful...
Supreme Court of Canada rulling on physician-assisted suicide Ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada on physician-assisted suicide in February 2015.
Talking Mats® Talking Mats®, developed at the University of Stirling, are a low tech communication framework involving sets of symbols...
Tube Feed or Not To Tube Feed? This evidenced-based fast fact sheet written by Dr J. Hallenbeck and Dr D. Weissman provides a brief outline of what is known...
The Use of Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation for Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Decision Aid for Patients This booklet gives easy to understand information about the risks and benefits of mechanical ventilation to assist patients...
What's right for YOU at the end of life? In this 4 minute video, Dr Daren Heyland, Intensive Care Unit Specialist addresses the importance of advance care planning...
When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...
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...
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