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Books - Palliative Care - Aged Care
Clinical Reasoning - Learning to think like a nurse. (2018)
16. Caring for a person requiring palliative care / Pamela Van Der Riet and Victoria Pitt. This book guides students through the clinical reasoning process while challenging them to think critically about the nursing care they provide.With scenarios adapted from real clinical situations that occurred in healthcare and community settings.
A Good Life to the End (2019)
A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and with their loved ones. A crucial and timely rallying cry against unnecessary suffering and for humanity and gentle acceptance at the end of our lives.
Hospice and Palliative Care (2017)
guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters provide mental-health and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the hospice practice as well as discussions of challenges and the future direction of the hospice movement. Updates to the new edition include advances in spiritual assessment and care, treatment of prolonged and complicated grief, provision of interdisciplinary palliative care in limited-resource settings, significant discussion of assisted suicide, primary healthcare including oncology, and more. Staff and volunteers new to the field along with experienced care providers and those using hospice and palliative care services will find this essential reading.
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing (2019)
Covers from the time of initial diagnosis of a serious illness to the end of a patient's life and beyond.
Chapters on advance care planning, organ donation, self-care, global palliative care, and the ethos of palliative nursing.
Each chapter is rich with tables and figures, case examples for improved learning, and a strong evidence-based practice to support the highest quality of care.
The content is relevant for palliative care programs, as well as generalist knowledge for schools of nursing, oncology, critical care, and pediatric.
Palliative and End of Life Care in Nursing (2017)
Covers complex issues, including handling bereavement, cultural and ethical issues, delivering care in a wide variety of settings, symptom management, and also ensuring your own emotional resilience. This book is specifically designed to equip nursing students and non-specialists with the essential knowledge in relation to the care and management of people nearing the end of life.
Patient and Person: Interpersonal skills in nursing. 7th Edition (2021)
Online scenario-based videos to demonstrate the use of specific skills.
Includes empathy, dealing with challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient.
Learn to build trusting relationships and support patients in their health journey.
Narratives and stories to explain practical application of theoretical concepts.
Forty-two learning activities to enable students to understand the content and practise skills in a focused manner.
Person-centred approach throughout. Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Patient and Person
Podcast - Palliative Care - Aged Care
Palliative Care: Goals of Care Discussion (2021)
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In this podcast, palliative care nurse Michelle Hedding speaks with nurse Annie Fulton about what palliative care is and how nurses can advocate for it for patients. They also discuss the contemporary issue of communicating with family members during the COVID era.
eBooks - Palliative Care - Aged Care
End of Life : What Should We Do for Those Who Are Dying? (2016)
What ought to be done at the end of life is both a personal and public decision. As our population ages, it is becoming a matter of great concern for the entire nation. Diseases that would have been death sentences a few decades ago are now often treatable.This guide explores end-of-life decisions and examines options and trade-offs inherent in this sensitive and universal issue. Medical advances make it more likely that we will care for relatives in their final days, facing decisions regarding their illnesses or death--as well as our own.
Voluntary euthanasia and assisted dying (2020)
The topic of voluntary euthanasia and assisted dying has a long history of impassioned political and community debate in Australia, often appearing to raise more questions than answers. Recently, however, Victoria and Western Australia have passed voluntary assisted dying legislation which grants eligible people with a terminally ill condition, who are experiencing intolerable suffering, legal access to assisted dying services
Online Videos - Palliative Care - Aged Care
Being Mortal (2015)
Dateline: how doctors care for terminally ill patients and the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life. D.
A Good Death (2010)
It's a telling statistic that seven out of ten Australians die what might be called an "expected death". In many cases doctors can tell patients roughly how long they have to live. In reality, only a few take advantage of those warnings. Instead they prefer to believe that somehow modern medicine will save them. Now a small group of doctors and nurses are warning that our obsession with curing illness is leaving patients poorly cared for and unprepared for death.
Living with Dying (2019)
Experiences of living with a terminal illness by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 42 people (including 1 carer) in their own homes. Find out what people said about issues such as diagnosis, talking to children, hospice care and planning for death. We hope you find the information helpful and reassuring.
Meet George the deaf bulldog who visits patients in palliative care (2019)
At a hospital on the NSW south coast, a deaf bulldog called George is putting a smile on the faces of patients in palliative care.
Palliative Care and Hospice Care (2018)
Palliative care and hospice care are important services. As caregivers, educators, and advocates, we must understand the differences between palliative care and hospice care so that we can ensure that patients and families are getting appropriate care and services at the appropriate times.
Websites - Palliative Care - Aged Care
Advance Care Planning in WA - Resources (2018)
Includes information on:
A Guide to Enduring Power of Guardianship in WA
Your choices to make an Advance Health Directive, appoint an Enduring Guardian
Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA)
IPEPA prepares mainstream and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals to deliver high quality, holistic and culturally responsive palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their loved ones.
National Palliative Care Standards 2018
The National Palliative Care Standards (the Standards) clearly articulate and promote a vision for compassionate and appropriate specialist palliative care. The Standards recognise the importance of care that is person-centred and age-appropriate. In particular they point to the requirement for specific attention to the needs of people who may be especially vulnerable or at risk. This may include, but is not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; asylum seekers; people who have experienced torture and trauma; people who are experiencing homelessness; people living with mental illness, intellectual disabilities or dementia; paediatric populations; people with unique clinical needs; people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, of transgender experience and people with intersex characteristics (LGBTI), people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, or those experiencing other forms of social or economic disadvantage.
PalliAged
palliAGED is the palliative care evidence and practice information resource for the Australian aged care sector. Providing support for health and care practitioners as well as resource developers, the website also provides trustworthy information for older Australians, their families and friends.
Palliative care
Palliative care helps people live as fully and as comfortably as possible with a life-limiting illness. Palliative care is for people of any age. It can be provided in your home, a hospital, a hospice or an aged care (nursing) home. Find out how to get the best care for you and your loved ones.
Palliative care and end of life care for indigenous people
When providing person-centred care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it is important to ask the person who they would like involved in discussions about their health care as they may have decision makers or spokespersons who should be involved in all discussions and decisions regarding that person’s care. If this is the case, it should be clearly document in the person’s records
Palliative Care Australia - Directory of Services [2020]
The National Palliative Care Service Directory provides information about specialist palliative care service providers, state or territory palliative care organisations and community support agencies.
Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) (2020)
PCC4U promotes the inclusion of palliative care education as an integral part of all medical, nursing, and allied health undergraduate and entry to practice training, and ongoing professional development.
WA Cancer and Palliative Care Network (2020)
The WA Cancer and Palliative Care Network (WACPCN) is a group of individuals and organisations committed to improving the patient experience for people with cancer or people accessing palliative care services. The Network provides a range of services to patients, the community and health professionals.
The Australian carer : a training manual for aged care workers (2017)
Chapter 18 Providing palliative care
Clinical Reasoning - Learning to think like a nurse. (2018)
16. Caring for a person requiring palliative care / Pamela Van Der Riet and Victoria Pitt. This book guides students through the clinical reasoning process while challenging them to think critically about the nursing care they provide.With scenarios adapted from real clinical situations that occurred in healthcare and community settings.
A Good Life to the End (2019)
A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and with their loved ones. A crucial and timely rallying cry against unnecessary suffering and for humanity and gentle acceptance at the end of our lives.
Hospice and Palliative Care (2017)
guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters provide mental-health and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the hospice practice as well as discussions of challenges and the future direction of the hospice movement. Updates to the new edition include advances in spiritual assessment and care, treatment of prolonged and complicated grief, provision of interdisciplinary palliative care in limited-resource settings, significant discussion of assisted suicide, primary healthcare including oncology, and more. Staff and volunteers new to the field along with experienced care providers and those using hospice and palliative care services will find this essential reading.
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing (2019)
Covers from the time of initial diagnosis of a serious illness to the end of a patient's life and beyond.
Chapters on advance care planning, organ donation, self-care, global palliative care, and the ethos of palliative nursing.
Each chapter is rich with tables and figures, case examples for improved learning, and a strong evidence-based practice to support the highest quality of care.
The content is relevant for palliative care programs, as well as generalist knowledge for schools of nursing, oncology, critical care, and pediatric.
Palliative and End of Life Care in Nursing (2017)
Covers complex issues, including handling bereavement, cultural and ethical issues, delivering care in a wide variety of settings, symptom management, and also ensuring your own emotional resilience. This book is specifically designed to equip nursing students and non-specialists with the essential knowledge in relation to the care and management of people nearing the end of life.
Patient and Person: Interpersonal skills in nursing. 7th Edition (2021)
Online scenario-based videos to demonstrate the use of specific skills.
Includes empathy, dealing with challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient.
Learn to build trusting relationships and support patients in their health journey.
Narratives and stories to explain practical application of theoretical concepts.
Forty-two learning activities to enable students to understand the content and practise skills in a focused manner.
Person-centred approach throughout. Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Patient and Person
End of Life : What Should We Do for Those Who Are Dying? (2016)
What ought to be done at the end of life is both a personal and public decision. As our population ages, it is becoming a matter of great concern for the entire nation. Diseases that would have been death sentences a few decades ago are now often treatable.This guide explores end-of-life decisions and examines options and trade-offs inherent in this sensitive and universal issue. Medical advances make it more likely that we will care for relatives in their final days, facing decisions regarding their illnesses or death--as well as our own.
