Tip of the Month

A trauma-informed approach to care is critical in palliative and end-of-life care because underlying trauma is integrated into how patients and their families may react to, and cope with, the [...]

As healthcare providers, we want to provide safe environments for our patients, which requires us to be aware of what trauma is, how its exposure can have lasting effects on the individual [...]

Big word. …tricky to say. Critically important to providing the appropriate and safe opioid therapy to patients. Opioids are used for their pain-relieving properties that bind to the human body’s [...]

Health Quality Ontario’s Palliative Care Quality Standard, Statement #12 – Interdisciplinary Team-Based Care, outlines the important role interdisciplinary team-based care plays in care planning [...]

Health of the oral cavity is an essential component of quality of life – impacting nutrition, self-esteem, and social/physical comfort. Proactive mouthcare prevents a variety of complications [...]

As healthcare providers (HCP), one of our many roles includes patient and family health education. Patients with life-limiting/threatening illnesses and their families may have misconceptions, or [...]

As healthcare providers (HCPs) one of our roles includes patient & family education. This is vital in palliative care as a common barrier to its initiation can often be due to a lack of [...]

A palliative approach includes providing patients and their families with information on what to expect from the advancement of their life-limiting condition and the impact of this on their [...]

This month marks one year since the new legislative amendments to MAID came into effect in Canada. Note: To ensure accuracy with the law, we have used excerpts from the Government of Canada MAID [...]

What is Health Education and Why is it Important? As healthcare providers (HCP) we have many roles, one of these is health education. Health education goes beyond standard teaching and further [...]