To enhance your home healthcare practice, these web sites offer information, materials, and resources for practice in palliative and end-of-life care.

 

Pallative Care: One Vision, One Voice
Here nurses may share information with other professionals about initiatives and projects related to improving patient care at the end of life. 
www.palliativecarenursing.net

City of Hope Pain/Palliative Care Resource Center
Clearinghouse to disseminate information and resources to improve the quality of pain management.
prc.coh.org

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
www.hpna.org

Open Society Institute, Project on Death in America
Major initiative to transform the culture of dying; funded the End-of-Life Leadership Academy for the Institute of Johns Hopkins Nursing.
www.soros.org/death

Last Acts
Powerful call-to-action campaign to improve care at the end of life.
www.lastacts.org

Growth House, Inc.
An international gateway to resources for palliative and end-of-life care.
www.growthhouse.org

DyingWell.org
Resources for people facing life-threatening illness, their families, and their professional caregivers.
www.dyingwell.org

Innovations in End-of-Life Care
A bimonthly online journal.
www.edc.org/lastacts


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