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Manage Nursing Home Pain
Information from Brown University: Manage Nursing Home Pain - Multifaceted Interventions to Ameliorate Pain and Symptoms

The Michigan Physician Guide to End-of-Life Care PDF icon

Physicians can help their terminally ill patients and family members find comfort and peace at the end of life by studying this guide and reviewing the many websites and other resources listed at the end of each chapter.

The Hastings Center
The Hastings Center specializes in bringing up ethical issues around end of life and other health concerns.

American Geriatrics Society
Professional society organization provides educational materials, practice guidelines and clinical practice tools for clinicians.

Medicare Learning Network - Hospice Payment System PDF icon

Current Data Shows Continued Improvement in Pain Management Clinical Goals in Nursing Homes PDF icon

Current Data Show Continued Improvement in Pain Management Clinical Goals in Nursing Homes

End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center
EPERC was started and supported through 2003 by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. EPERC is a resource for End of Life/Palliative healthcare professionals through support from the Medical College of Wisconsin--no registration or password needed.

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

The EPEC Project
Our mission is to educate all healthcare professionals on the essential clinical competencies in palliative care.

End of Life Nursing Education Consortium
Information from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

GrowthHouse.org
Growth House, Inc., provides this award-winning portal as your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care.

End of Life Physician Resource Center
Advancing End of Life Care Through an online Community of Educational Scholars, information from the Medical College of Wisconsin

Care of Patients with Delirium at the End of Life PDF icon

Care of Patients with Delirium at the End of Life, presentation by Terry Terpstra, R.N., M.S.N., Battle Creek VA Medical Center

Living One's Dying: Letting Go is Not Giving Up PDF icon

Presentation by Cathie Kurek-Ovshinsky, RN, PsyD, LLP, Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan

Spiritual Care of the Dying PDF icon

Presentation by Daniel B. Hinshaw, M.D., Palliative Care Program, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan