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.
You can book an education session if you are a health professional.
Latest releases
- Rapid Transfer Home for Terminal Care Checklist - a planning document that can be used by hospital-based clinicians to safely support adult patients and their families/carers who choose to transfer home (private residence or residential aged care facility (RACF)) for end-of-life and terminal care.
- 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.
- 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 online.
End-of-life care in Residential Aged Care
Improving quality of life for people in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) with life limiting illnesses and their families can be achieved
through early identification, assessment and treatment of physical, cultural, psychological, social and spiritual needs.
These online education modules teach nurses to provide holistic end-of-life care in RACFs.
Each module takes 15-30 minutes to complete and should be completed on a PC, laptop or tablet.
- Module 1. Nurturing resilience and fostering self-care as an aged care nurse
- Module 2. Palliative Care Case Conferences in Residential Aged Care
- Module 3. Principles of quality terminal care
- Module 4. End-of-Life Care in RACFs: pharmacological symptom management
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 82 kB)
- NIKI Syringe Pump Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Chart (PDF 360 kB)
- Rapid Transfer Home for Terminal Care Checklist (PDF 801 kB)
- Community Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Order (over 24 hours) (PDF 656 kB)
- Life Extinct form (PDF, 875KB) (login required)
for staff external to Queensland Health, please email pallconsult@health.qld.gov.au for access. - Example expected death letter (PDF 723 kB)
example only, please email pallconsult@health.qld.gov.au for official copy.
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- NEW National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List
- 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)
- How to insert a subcutaneous cannula
- 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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Access information for health professionals and consumers about voluntary assisted dying in Queensland.