palliative care

End-of-life care during the last days and hours

Published: Fri, 2011-09-09 08:31 by Jackie Devenish

"This guideline will provide evidence- based recommendations for Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses on best nursing practices for end-of-life care during the last days and hours."

Palliative Care

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks:

End of life care : a practical guide

Oxford handbook of palliative care

Oxford textbook of palliative nursing resource

Therapeutic guidelines resource : palliative care

Therapeutic guidelines: palliative care

Dictionaries:

Stedman's medical dictionary

Stedman's medical dictionary resource

Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary

Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice:

CareSearch Clinical Practice - this site provides access to summaries of the evidence to support clinical practice

Managing pain in children : a clinical guide

Handbook of communication in oncology and palliative care

Care of the dying and deceased patient : a practical guide for nurses

Diet and nutrition in palliative care

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence Based Practice:

CareSearch - Finding evidence. Caresearch provides access to PubMed palliative care searches, a Review collection which is divided into topic area and also provides access to a database of grey literature.

Cochrane Library - information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

NHMRC - Guidelines for a palliative approach in residential aged care

Centre for Palliative Care - Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Psychosocial and Bereavement Support
of Family Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients.

Care at the close of life : evidence and experience - JAMA Evidence

Palliative care for advanced Alzheimer's and dementia : guidelines and standards for evidence-based care

Palliative care nursing resource : principles and evidence for practice

Palliative care nursing : principles and evidence for practice

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

PubMed - PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Medline - Ovid version of Medline. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

Embase.com - A database which provides access to the biomedical literature with over 2,000 biomedical titles not currently offered by MEDLINE.

CareSearch - Palliative Care PubMed searches

CINAHL - Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals.

Informit Health Collection - Fulltext Australian databases covering research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles

Journals

Journals:

BMC palliative care

Journal of pain & palliative care pharmacotherapy

Current opinion in supportive and palliative care

Journal of hospice and palliative nursing

To find more journals in this area, do a keyword search for palliative treatment periodicals in the Library catalogue

Secondary Materials

Secondary Materials:

Secondary resources, such as books, ebooks, print journals and multimedia can be found via the Library Catalogue or by browsing the shelves at the relevant library.

R Medicine

R 726 Palliative treatment

RC271 Cancer - Palliative treatment

RT 87 Pain - Nursing

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

Palliative care for care homes : a practical handbook

Web Sites

Web Sites:

CareSearch - the result of an Australian government project, CareSearch is an online resource of palliative care information and evidence which has been reviewed for quality and relevance.

Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education - CPCRE - a Queensland Health initiative to enhance and develop palliative care education and research in Queensland.