Clip Adults Worksheets

1. Introductory - What is palliative care? 

2. Introductory - Meeting the very ill adult for the first time

3. Introductory - Making sensible decisions

1. Introductory - What is pain?

2. Introductory - Issues in assessing pain

3. Introductory - Diagnosing the cause of pain

4. Intermediate - Choosing an analgesic

5. Intermediate - Using morphine

6. Intermediate - Understanding the adverse effects of opioids

7. Advanced - Alternatives to morphine

8. Advanced - Changing opioids

9. Advanced - Persisting pain

10. Advanced - Managing severe pain 

1. Introductory - Constipation

2. Intermediate - Fatigue, lethargy, drowsiness and weakness

3. Introductory - Breathlessness

4. Introductory - Oral Problems

5. Intermediate - Nausea and vomiting

6. Intermediate - Bowel obstruction

7. Intermediate - Oedema

8. Advanced - Lymphoedema

9. Intermediate - Confusion

10. Intermediate - Recognising emergencies

1. Introductory - General principles

2. Intermediate - Equipment, adaptations and improving the environment

1. Introductory - Principles

2. Intermediate - Issues around capacity

3. Intermediate - Best interests

4. Intermediate - Involving an IMCA

5. Intermediate - Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS)

6. Intermediate - Advance decisions to refuse treatment

7. Intermediate - Preparing for ReSPECT decisions     

8. Intermediate - Documenting decisions with ReSPECT

9. Intermediate - Issues around resuscitation

1. Introductory - Fostering hope

2. Introductory - Helping the person to share their problems

3. Intermediate - Breaking difficult news

4. Intermediate - Helping the anxious person

5. Intermediate - Helping the angry person

6. Intermediate - Answering difficult questions

7. Advanced - Helping the withdrawn patient

8. Advanced - Collusion and denial

9. Introductory - Spiritual issues

1. Introductory - Maintaining the environment for eating and drinking

2. Intermediate - Balancing the diet

3. Intermediate - Enriching and fortifying the diet

4. Intermediate - Decisions in hydration and nutrition

5. Intermediate - Thinking about swallowing problems

6. Advanced - Using non-oral routes

7. Advanced - Managing a gastrostomy

8. Advanced - The cachexia syndrome

1. Intermediate - Setting up a syringe driver

2. Intermediate - Problems with a subcutaneous infusion

1. Introductory - Conditions causing communication difficulties

2. Introductory - Identifying distress

3. Intermediate - Down syndrome

4. Intermediate - Epilepsy

5. Intermediate - Dementia

1. Intermediate - Adjustments

2. Intermediate - Planning care the care of the dying patient

3. Intermediate - Managing distress

4. Introductory - A friend dies

5. Introductory - The death

1. Introductory - The loss begins

2. Introductory - The effect of death on staff

3. Intermediate - Assessing risk