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Guide for Implementing Screening for Distress, the 6th Vital Sign Created by the Cancer Journey Action Group, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, this guideline includes screening tools...

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...

Inter-Professional Spiritual Care Engagement Tool (SCET) This educational package has self-directed learning options for health care providers to gain an understanding of spiritual...

IPAL-ICU Project In a major national effort to integrate and improve palliative care in the ICU, the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)...

Life and Death Matters (Education Resources) Free online educational resources - podcasts, powerpoint presentations, an instructors's manual, and many more resources...

National Nursing Framework on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada This document produced by the Canadian Nurses Association, provides a national framework for nurses and nurse practitioners...

NICE (National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly) NICE is an international network of researchers, practitioners and students dedicated to improving the care of older adults,...

Non-Communicative Patient’s Pain Assessment Instrument (NOPPAIN) A US Veterans Affairs METRIC(TM) Instrument for pain assessment in the non-verbal patient. For more information, contact...

PACSLAC: The Pain Assessment Checklist Used to screen for pain in older adults who have dementia or other cognitive impairment with a limited ability to communicate.

Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) This pain behavior tool is used to assess pain in older adults who have dementia or other cognitive impairment and are unable...