PallConsult resources
PallConsult engages in a number of projects and offers external resources to improve the ability of local healthcare teams around Queensland to deliver palliative care services.
If you are a GP, nurse or personal care worker, download the PallConsult resources document (PDF 324 kB) to easily locate relevant resources, tools and education relating to palliative and end-of-life care.
You can also book an education session if you are a health professional.
Latest releases
- CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps - a learning package developed for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps for use in palliative care clinical settings - community, residential aged care and inpatient.
- NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump - a learning package developed for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump for use in palliative care clinical settings - community, residential aged care and inpatient.
- Palliative care resources, tools and education (PDF 384 kB) - this document allows GPs, nurses and personal care workers to easily locate relevant resources, tools and education relating to palliative and end-of-life care.
- Surefuser infusion device - a learning package developed for health professionals to learn how to set up, commence and monitor a Surefuser infusion device for use in the palliative care setting.
caring@home packages for carers
PallConsult partners with caring@home to produce free caring@home Packages for Carers to support the provision of best-practice palliative care in Queensland. Order packages through the PallConsult page on the CareSearch website.
palliPHARM
palliPHARM resources support community pharmacists to ensure residential aged care facility residents and all other community-based palliative care patients have timely access to palliative care medicines if needed.
Palliative care resources
The following documents and links are available to help support best-practice palliative and end-of-life care in Queensland.
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- Advance Care Planning - Online Education and Train-the-Trainer Guide
- Advance care planning (ACP) education for health professionals - modules to assist with the correct completion and lodgement of Queensland ACP documents
- Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning – Queensland Health - advance care planning information for consumers and health professionals
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- Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning
- Specialist Palliative Rural Telehealth Service
- caring@home - resources for health professionals and carers of people who choose to be cared for, and to die at home, if possible.
- MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS PCEP)
- Acute Resuscitation Plan
- Death at home - Checklist for families (PDF 200 kB)
- NIKI Syringe Pump Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Chart (PDF, 354KB)
- Community Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Order (over 24 hours) (PDF, 343KB)
- Life Extinct form (PDF, 875KB) (login required)
- Example expected death letter (PDF 208 kB)
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- Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland (PDF 1022 kB)
- Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland - a short webinar video to assist clinicians to navigate the guidance document
- Guiding Principles for Medication Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities - a resource from the Australia Government's Department of Health and Aged Care in collaboration with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
- Guide to the Pharmacological Management of End of Life (Terminal) Symptoms in Residential Aged Care Residents: A Resource for General Practitioners (PDF, 260KB)
- Inserting a subcutaneous intima - step by step guide (PDF 942 kB)
- Opioid Rotation Conversion Learning Package (PDF, 535KB) (PDF 535 kB)
- palliMEDS app - for management of common emergent symptoms in home-based palliative care patients in the last few weeks of life. Features an opioid calculator tool.
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