NOTE: Related resources can be found at Specialty Care Resources: Advance directives and Long-Term Care.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition, create a blueprint for excellence by establishing a comprehensive foundation for gold-standard palliative care for all people living with serious illness, regardless of their diagnosis, prognosis, age or setting.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition
Online Community
NEW! – Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplain Community of Practice (H/PC CoP) is an unaffiliated online discussion network for chaplains working or training to work in hospice and palliative care. It is co-moderated by Denise Hess and Allison Kestenbaum and hosted on the Mighty Networks platform with technical support from Transforming Chaplaincy. This is a virtual space where hospice and palliative care chaplains and those interested in this specialty can build community, share clinical practices and resources, ask questions and more! To join visit: https://transforming-chaplaincy.mn.co/share/CsT9AD28wSFb3CZE?utm_source=manual
Supportive Care Coalition
The SCC’s stated goal is “to ensure that every Catholic health ministry has palliative care as a part of its core services so that we are known as much for palliative care as for our concern for the poor and vulnerable.”
Visit their website here: Supportive Care Coalition
Documents and PowerPoint presentations
Note: names below typically indicate the submitter of the document(s) and may or may not be the author of said material(s). If the tag says “by John Smith” then John Smith is the author. All other tags are names of submitters.
EMR Palliative Care Assessment — Palliative Care Assessment created by Elizabeth Prairie of Franciscan Skemp Mayo Health of LaCrosse, Wisconsin
Spiritual Care Assessment: Measureable Goals and Outcomes presentation by Suzanne Weiss, BCC and Johnny Groda, MDiv (submitted by Suzanne Weiss, BCC)
Palliative Care and the Quality of Life by Diane E. Meier, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, and Otis W. Brawley, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia — Submitted by Carole Weber
No One Dies Alone training — submitted by Mary Heintzkill
Palliative Care Screening Tool SHC — from Scottsdale Healthcare – submitted by Mrs. Carole Weber
Comfort Orders — from Scottsdale Healthcare – submitted by Mrs. Carole Weber
Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care: The Report of the Consensus Conference Journal of Palliative Medicine, Volume 12, Number 10, 2009
NHPCO Chaplain Standards — submitted by Ann Hurst
PHC Palliative Care Services PPPPs — submitted by Ann Hurst
PHC Palliative Care Services Manual — submitted by Ann Hurst
SHS Cost Comparison Poster 
PowerPoint slide (poster) — submitted by T. Albanese
Spiritual Care Assessments — from Home Care and Hospice of Western New York, Inc – submitted by Reverend Mike Stuart
Spiritual Assessment — submitted by Joan Olson
Spiritual Care Problem List — submitted by Joan Olson
Palliative Care Resources — submitted by Peter Gelfer
Other Palliative Care Resources — submitted by Peter Gelfer
Palliative Care 2009 PowerPoint presentation — submitted by Mary Lou O’Gorman
Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Hospice (PDF)
Spiritual Suffering Scale — submitted by Sister Georgeann Roudebush, BCC
Sample Statements Using the Spiritual Care Distress Scale — submitted by Suzanne Weiss, BCC
Related resources: chaplain self-care
Self Care for Chaplains by Rev. R. Michael Stuart, HR, M.Div., M.A., BCC, Spiritual Care Manager of Home Care and Hospice of Western New York, Inc. (New York Chaplains Association)
Stress Burnout PowerPoint presentation by Georgeann Roudebush
To suggest a resource or link for this collection, or to submit a document, contact Phil Paradowski at pparadowski@nacc.org
