This excerpt is from a teaching presentation for practical nurse students, providing basic information about hospice palliative care (HPC), the origins, traditions and needs for HPC throughout the health care system.

1. Essentials in
Hospice Palliative Care
Teaching Series
Life and Death Matters
© 2010

2. INTRODUCTION TO
HOSPICE PALLIATIVE
END OF LIFE CARE
All page numbers refer to Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care,
2nd Edition

3. What is hospice palliative care?
• Abbreviation – HPC
• What lies in the history of these words?….
• Ideas?
pages 5 – 12
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4. KEY PHRASES USED IN HPC
PG 7*
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5. “Palliative care is an approach that improves the
quality of life of patients and their families facing
the problems associated with life-threatening
illness, through the prevention and relief of
suffering by means of early identification and
impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and
other problems, physical, psychosocial and
spiritual.”
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
DEFINITION
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6. To order your copy of this slide show
or for more information about educational
resources visit the website at
http://lifeanddeathmatters.ca
© 2010
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