Tools for Practice

Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.
Hospice and palliative care
General
99 Common Questions (And More) About Hospice Palliative Care: A Nurses Handbook, 3rd ed.
This handbook was written to enhance the professional caregiver’s capacity and confidence in offering hospice palliative... read more...
BMC Geriatrics
BMC Geriatrics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the health... read more...
BMC Palliative Care
BMC Palliative Care is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the clinical, scientific,... read more...
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association - Position Statement re Euthanasia & Physician-assisted Suicide
The position statement of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. read more...
Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience
As part of the JAMA evidence series, Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience offers evidence-based and clinical... read more...
Care of the Dying and Deceased Patient : A Practical Guide for Nurses
This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of the dying and deceased patient.   It outlines... read more...
Care of the Dying: A pathway to excellence (2nd ed.)
Second edition (paperback) to be released December, 2010. read more...
Caring Connections
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national US website... read more...
Cicely Saunders, Founder of the Hospice Movement: Selected Letters, 1959-1999
Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work,... read more...
CMAJ - Palliative Care Focus April 2011
Online access to special issue. read more...
Government / group reports
Program development / Standards and norms
NewAccess to Care at the End of Life: Encounters between home care nurses and family caregivers
A research report out of the University of Victoria. The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of how home... read more...
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