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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

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Heart Failure Care This clinical practice guideline reviews clinical evidence and provides recommendations for the management of heart failure...

Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC) This guide for nurses provides key information relevant to the nursing care of patients with advanced (or end-stage) chronic...

iPall- Heart Failure Palliative Care Assessment Tool The clinical practice tool has been developed to support health care providers who are assessing symptoms and atempting to...

The Management of Dyspnea in Cancer Patients: A Clinical Practice Guideline This clinical practice guideline reviews the clinical evidence re: the treatment of dyspnea in cancer patients and provides...

Nursing Care of Dyspnea:The 6th Vital Sign in Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Registered Nurses Association of Ontario best nursing practice guidelines addressing the nursing assessment and management...

Pain & Symptom Management Guideline BC Cancer Agency has produced a guideline that addresses the assessment and management of pain and other common symptoms...

Palliation of End-stage Heart Disease: Three Things You Need to Know Evidenced-based powerpoint presentation addressing symptom management, prognostication/goals of care, and palliative care...

The Palliative Approach for Advanced Heart Failure in Long Term Care This pamphlet was made to help persons with Heart Failure and their families know what to expect at the end of life so they...

The Palliative Approach for Advanced Lung Disease in Long Term Care This pamphlet was made to help persons with Advanced Lung Disease and their families know what to expect at the end of life...

Refractory Symptoms and Palliative Sedation Therapy Guideline This guideline provides recommendations for the ongoing assessment and symptom management of adult patients (age 19 years...

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Hypercalcemia

Lymphedema

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Myoclonis / Seizures

Nausea / vomiting

Pain

Radiation skin reactions

Spinal cord compression - see Palliative care emergencies

Swallowing

Wounds

Sedation for Palliative Purposes – Evidence Informed Practice Tool This guideline provides recommendations for adult and pediatric clinical practice when Sedation for Palliative Purposes is...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes Guideline – PowerPoint Presentation This is the PowerPoint presentation that outlines details of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority guideline on Sedation...

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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