| # | Book Details |
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| 51 | Exploring Your Options for Palliative Care - A guide for patients and families When should I receive palliative care?, Where can I receive palliative care? Who provides palliative care?How can I get palliative care? |
| 52 | Facts about morphine and other opioids Opioid medicines are pain relievers. They include medicines such as codeine, morphine and oxycodone. This brochure will help you, your family and your carers learn about using morphine and other opioid medicines for relieving pain. Knowing the facts will help you manage your pain and get on with life. |
| 53 | Finding the words - starting a conversation when your cancer has progressed Learning that your cancer has progressed can present a whole new set of challenges. Acknowledging the enormity of this transition can feel overwhelming. This guide is designed to assist you in this transition, to empower you to take control. By assisting you to talk with the people who can support you, your family, friends and members of your healthcare team can be there with you during this transition. |
| 54 | Green Book or Good Practice guide There are some key principles or 'Golden Rules' which underpin symptom management. These include: Assess and diagnose the cause of symptoms, before planning symptom management Treat potentially reversible causes, where appropriate Always consider non-drug approaches as they can be as important as the use of drugs Management plan is influenced by prognosis and patient choice and depends on the therapeutic goal |
| 55 | Guide to difficult conversations with young adults. This guide sets out some of the key messages and direct quotes from young people and parents that we talked with. We hope that it will give you the confidence to take the opportunity to have these difficult, but essential, conversation |
| 56 | Guidelines for Developing Palliative Care services. The manual has been divided into 3 sections. Section 1 is oral morphine availability, Section 2 & 3 outlines the process of developing palliative care service in a hospital and within community respectively. The manual also include s information on training facilities and training programs on palliative care available in different parts of India. |
| 57 | Guidelines for Nutritional Care in Palliative Care Cachexia is common in cancer and other types of chronic disease. It is defined as weight loss, anorexia, weakness and asthenia causing reduced performance status, fatigue, metabolic alterations and reduced quality of life. |
| 58 | Guidelines for Palliative and End of Life Care in Nursing Homes and Residential Care Homes The aim of these guidelines is to enable staff within the nursing and residential care home setting, in collaboration with other members of the health and social care team, to provide consistent high quality palliative and end of life to residents and their families. |
| 59 | Guidelines for the handling of palliative care medicines in community services These guidelines have been developed by NPS as a part of the caring@home project and are endorsed by Palliative Care Australia. They represent a consensus-based approach to the handling of palliative care medicines by community services, and consider jurisdictional legislative requirements, policies and guidelines across all Australian states and territories. |
| 60 | Guidelines for the Management of Colorectal Cancer 3rd edition Guidelines are not intended to create a rigid framework where there is a reasonable difference of opinion, but the range of opinion may be informed by participation in appropriate clinical trials and national audits, which can help to set standards of care. Furthermore, participation in national audits and clinical trials can help identify areas of best practice which can then be disseminated to improve patient care for all. |