Palliative Care Clinic box

If you're a patient or carer, please talk to your GP or visit Palliative Care Australia for more information.

Health professionals

Learn more about providing palliative care for First Nations people by reading Managing palliative care symptoms: A guide for health professionals.

Read the Example policy and procedures document to help develop your own policies and procedure framework to use caring@home resources. You can learn more about using caring@home resources by reading:

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Using the Palliative Care Clinic Box

The Palliative Care Clinic Box contains resources for health professionals to use to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families helping to provide end-of-life care at home.

You can download or print the resources from the list below.

Clinical services can reproduce resources:

For Aboriginal Medical Services

We have limited stocks of Palliative Care Clinic Boxes available for Aboriginal Medical Services.

Please email caringathome@health.qld.gov.au to order a box.

Resources

Tailored for Aboriginal families
	Information brochure for families - Helping to manage symptoms at home	Information brochure for families - Helping to manage symptoms at home
	Training checklist and carer/family post-training competency assessment
	Syringe labels
Managing physical symptoms - tip sheets
	Help with feeling sick in the gut V2	Help with feeling sick in the gut V2
	Help with fitting V2	Help with fitting V2
	Help with fluid in the gut (new)	Help with fluid in the gut (new)
	Help with pain V2	Help with pain V2
	Help with rattly breathing V2	Help with rattly breathing V2
	Help with restlessness V2	Help with restlessness V2
	Help with short of breath V2	Help with short of breath V2
	Help with stress V2	Help with stress V2
	Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts V2	Help with troubling visions, sounds and thoughts V2
	Common symptoms experienced at end of life V2	Common symptoms experienced at end of life V2
Recognising dying
	Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed V2	Knowing when a person is getting closer to passing/Knowing when a person has passed V2
NEW Understanding infusion devices
	About infusion pumps (CADD^TM-SOLIS and CADD^TM-SOLIS VIP)	About infusion pumps (CADD^TM-SOLIS and CADD^TM-SOLIS VIP)
	About syringe pumps (NIKI T34^TM, T34^TM and BODYGUARD^TM T)	About syringe pumps (NIKI T34^TM, T34^TM and BODYGUARD^TM T)
	About infusion devices (Surefuser^TM+)	About infusion devices (Surefuser^TM+)
Step-by-step guides
	Help manage symptoms at home	Help manage symptoms at home
	Put the medicine in the syringe	Put the medicine in the syringe
	Give the medicine under the skin	Give the medicine under the skin
Medicines book and wall chart
	Medicines book	Medicines book
	Medicines book self-print label template	Medicines book self-print label template
	Medicines book self-print instructions	Medicines book self-print instructions
	Wall chart	Wall chart
Training videos - see all videos (including Indigenous language voiceover videos)
	Video 1 - Caring for your loved one at home
	Video 2 - Help manage symptoms at home
	Video 3 - How to put medicine in a syringe
	Video 4 - How to give medicine under the skin

Using the caring@home resources

To learn more about how to use the caring@home resources, read our frequently asked questions.

Resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

Health professionals

Using the Palliative Care Clinic Box

For Aboriginal Medical Services

Resources

Using the caring@home resources