Assessment & Palliative Care Services
Palliative Care Aide Memoire
The process of assessment can help to produce a common understanding of needs. The assessor should be any experienced health or social care professional, who normally undertakes assessments as part of their role. The purpose of this aide memoire is to act as a prompt when assessing and reviewing patients with palliative and end of life care needs across conditions.
Link to Memoire: Palliative Care Aide Memoire
Specialist Palliative Care Day Services Model – Click image to download
Definition and Competencies for Key Worker Function
The aim of this paper is to provide a high level definition for Key worker function and competencies.
The key worker function should be an integral part of the role of all relevant Health and Social Care Professionals. The individual who assumes the key worker function will be a member of the patients multidisciplinary team, responsible alongside side other team members, for planning and co-ordinating patient care across interfaces, including within and between care teams and care settings.
Link to paper: Definition and Competencies for Key Worker Function
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.
Link to guidelines: Guidelines for Palliative and End of Life Care in Nursing Homes and Residential Care Homes
HSC Bereavement Network
The HSC Bereavement Network website has been developed to provide information and guidance for those who care for and support dying people and their loved ones around the time of and after death.
Link to website: http://www.hscbereavementnetwork.hscni.net/
Care of the Deceased Patient and their Family: A Guideline for Nursing Practice in Northern Ireland
‘Care of the Deceased Patient and their Family: A Guideline for Nursing Practice in Northern Ireland’, provides guidance to nurses and midwives working in any setting on how to achieve the delivery of safe, sensitive, effective and person-centred nursing care to a deceased person and their family, friends and carers.
Link to Guidelines: Care of the Deceased Patient and their Family: A Guideline for Nursing Practice in Northern Ireland
