Welcome PSWs, nurses, practitioners, and healthcare leaders. Life & Death Matters is your partner for ongoing workplace education in palliative and end-of-life care.
Developed by a team of experienced nurses and healthcare professionals, the Life & Death Matters textbooks, workbooks, and resource materials are a valuable resource for supporting both personal and staff palliative education goals. Written to support national and provincial competencies, the Life & Death Matters resources and materials have also been translated into multiple languages to provide tailored education for Personal Support Workers and nurses.
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Are you a Personal Support Worker, Health Care Assistant, Continuing Care Assistant, Nurse’s Aide, Nursing Assistant, Patient Care Technician, or Medical Assistant?
If you are working with people experiencing a life-limiting illness, these resources are for you. Filled with practical strategies, stories of care-giving, and real-life scenarios your Life & Death Matters textbooks, workbooks, and resources will help you learn how to integrate a palliative approach into your care practice. When you learn the skills, attitudes and knowledge of providing a palliative approach to care, you will feel more confident, you will be able to enhance comfort and improve the quality of life for the dying person and their family.
The text Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers and companion resources are based on, and incorporate the principles, practices, and standards from the following organization and documents:
Ministry of Ontario, Training, and Universities, 2014 Learning Outcomes for PSWs
Nova Scotia Palliative Care Competency Framework, 2017
Ontario Palliative Care Competency Framework, 2019
The Way Forward: An Integrated Palliative Approach to Care | Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Nursing in any environment, from hospice to long-term care to acute care, means that you touch the lives of patients with life-limiting illnesses. Life & Death Matters developed the following resources, based on national and provincial competencies, to help nurses around the globe integrate a palliative approach in their practice.
Illustrated and printed in full colour, our nursing-specific texts and materials include a wide range of activities that help to develop self-awareness, best practices, practical skills in hospice and palliative care, and skills for supporting patients and families through dying, death, loss and grief. Importantly, you will also learn strategies for enhancing relational skills and the vital development of self-care as a practice.
Estos recursos son su guía para integrar un enfoque paliativo en su práctica. La calidad de vida de las personas con una enfermedad terminal se puede mejorar integrando un enfoque paliativo en su atención.
Este libro, cuaderno de trabajo y videos serán de gran ayuda para todos los profesionales de enfermería que brindan atención tanto a personas moribundas como a sus familias, ya sea en un centro de atención a largo plazo, cuidados intensivos, sala de emergencias o cuidados intensivos. en una unidad de cuidados paliativos o en casa.
The text, Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Nurses, and companion resources are based on, and incorporate the principles, practices and standards from the following documents:
Alberta Nurses’ Palliative Care Competency Framework, 2020
British Columbia Centre Interprofessional Palliative Competency Framework, 2019
Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Framework, 2021
Nova Scotia Palliative Care Competency Framework, 2017
Ontario Palliative Care Competency Framework, 2019
Standards of Practice for Licensed Practical Nurses in Canada
Standards and Principles of Practice for Nurses in the United States
Codes of Ethics
International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics
Canadian Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
Code of Ethics for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) in Canada
American Nurses Association Code of Ethics
When you purchase a Life & Death Matters textbook package, you get exclusive access to a range of support materials and resources to assist you in your learning. With open access to our extensive Resource Library, feel free to listen and learn at school, at home, or when traveling – as many times as you want! Topics include Standard Assessment Tools, Enhancing Comfort and Managing Symptoms, Psychosocial Issues, Grief, Dementia and more.
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