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
National Palliative Care Standards for All Health Professionals and Aged Care Services: For professionals not working in specialist palliative care The National Palliative Care Standards were developed with the aim of supporting better experiences and outcomes for people...
National Palliative Medicine Survey Questionnaire This questionnaire was developed and implemented by the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians to support their National...
Navigation: A Guide to Implementing Best Practices in Person-Centred Care The new navigation guide, which builds on a working document released in 2010, describes the different types of navigation...
Ontario Palliative Care Network Action Plan 1: 2017 – 2020: Action Areas, Actions and Timelines This Action Plan (2017 to 2020) is the work plan that will guide how the partners of the Ontario Palliative Care Network...
Organizing a Small Hospice Resources Library Anna Henshaw and Hospice of Windsor & Essex County Inc. have created this book to help others develop hospice resources libraries.
Palliative Care - Fact Sheet This fact sheet supports the World Health Organization's goal to improve access to palliative care as a core component of...
Palliative Care Competencies for Undergraduate Medical Students in Canada A competency-based model of medical education is being integrated across the trajectory of medical education in Canada --...
Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework - Frequently Asked Questions This Frequently Asked Questions document accompanies the Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework produced by the...
Staffing Model for Palliative Care Programs The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians is proud to announce publication of a paper developed by the CSPCP’s Staffing...
Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot be separated...
Tools to Support Earlier Identification for Palliative Care - Ontario Palliative Care Network The aim of this document is to support providers and system level leadership in earlier identification of patients who would...
The Way Forward National Framework This document is the first step in developing a national framework: a roadmap for implementing an integrated palliative approach...
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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