LibGuides: Library Resource Guides: Palliative care

Book titles for palliative care

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A practical guide to end of life care by Clair Sadler
Call Number: 616.029 SAD 2015
Handbook of palliative care by Faull, de Caestecker, Nicholson & Fraser
Call Number: 616.029 FAU 2012
Letting go : how to plan for a good death by Charlie Corke
Call Number: 155.937 COR 2018
Palliative care nursing: a guide to practice by O'Connor, Aranda & Lee
Call Number: 616.029 OCO 2012
Palliative care nursing at a glance by Ingleton & Larkin (eds.)
Call Number: 616.029 ING 2015
Palliative care : the nursing role by Jean Lugton & Rosemary McIntyre
Call Number: 616.029 LUG 2005

Smartphone app for nurses in aged care and end-of-life care

palliAGEDnurse app
The PalliAGEDnurse app aims to help nurses in general practice, community settings and residential aged care to provide a palliative approach to care for older people in the last twelve months of life.

CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge Network

End-of-Life Essentials Project
The modules develop knowledge and skills to recognise end-of-life issues, to enhance communication strategies and to gain confidence in caring for patients and their families in acute hospitals requiring end-of-life care.
CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge Network
CareSearch nurses hub is an online resource designed to easily find relevant and trustworthy information and resources about palliative care.
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The website has been funded by the Australian Government's Department of Health and Ageing
Culturally appropriate palliative and end-of-life care
Portal created by Palliative Care Australia and Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet which aims to assist the health workforce who provide care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their families and communities.
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The portal provides information on planning ahead, culturally appropriate palliative and end of life care and grief and bereavement.

National Palliative Care Standards

This fifth edition of National Palliative Care Standards have been mapped to align with the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards and Aged Care Standards.

National Palliative Care Standards (5th ed., 2018)
National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe high quality end of life care (2015)

Ebooks on palliative care

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Handbook of palliative care by Faull et al.
Publication Date: 2012
Palliative care nursing at a glance by Ingleton & Larkin
Publication Date: 2015

Useful web resources for palliative care

Check for resources and the latest guidelines from the Centre for Palliative Care, a collaboration between St Vincent’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne.

Victoria's end of life and palliative care framework
Victoria State Government health.vic
Palliative Care by Australia. Department of Health
Includes link to 'National Palliative Care Strategy 2010 – Supporting Australians to Live Well at the End of Life'
Centre for Palliative Care

Finding the latest research on palliative care

CareSearch PubMed searches
Run the CareSearch palliative care search filter. The links on this page provide an easy and reliable way to find the relevant palliative care literature. Each link runs an immediate search of PubMed and all searches are automatically updated as new articles are added to the database.