Tools for Practice

Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.
Symptoms
Anorexia / Cachexia
Anxiety
Ascites
Bleeding
Bowel obstruction
Congestion
Constipation / diarrhea
Cough
Dehydration
Delirium
Depression
Drowsiness
Dyspnea
Fatigue
General
Hypercalcemia
Lymphedema
Malignant wound
Mouth care
Myoclonis / Seizures
Nausea / vomiting
Pain
Achieving Pain Control in Pediatric Palliative Care
A publication of the World Health Organization, this site has information on pain control for children suffering with various... read more...
Alleviating Pain and Suffering in Children Receiving Palliative Care
This webinar is part of a pediatric pain series organized by the CIHR Team in Children’s Pain and its knowledge translation... read more...
Assessing Pain in Older Adults with Dementia
A tool for assessing pain with cognitively impaired older persons and information on its use. Published by the Hartford Institute... read more...
Assessment and Management of Pain
This nursing best practice guideline is a comprehensive document providing resources necessary for the support of evidence... read more...
Assessment and Management of Pain - Learning Module
Learning module developed by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario that accompanies the clinical practice guideline... read more...
Best practice guidelines for the Management of Cancer-Related Pain in Adults
This document reviews clinical evidence and provides recommendations for the assessment and treatment of cancer-related pain... read more...
Canadian Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
The Canadian Guideline is presented in two separate documents: Part A (Executive Summary and Background) and Part B (Recommendations... read more...
Cancer Pain Management in Children
This website was designed for health care professionals by the Texas Children's Cancer Center but parents are encouraged... read more...
Cancer-related Pain Management: A Report of Evidence-Based Recommendations to Guide Practice
A clinical practice guideline that provides recommendations for the assessment and management of cancer pain. read more...
Care Beyond Cure: Management of Pain and Other Symptoms
Care Beyond Cure (4th ed),  produced by the Medical  Scientific Bookstore and the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists,  presents... read more...
Radiation skin reactions
Spinal cord compression - see Palliative care emergencies
Swallowing
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