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Palliative Care

Palliative Care

Compassionate Care Benefits Community Nursing Offices Palliative Care Federal EI program providing up to 26 For enquiries about NH PC at home, weeks (approximately 6 months) of call or visit the website at A Guide for Patients and Families compassionate care leave to specified www.northernhealth.ca/Professionals/ family members caring for or providing PalliativeCareEndofLifeCare.aspx support to a seriously ill family Northern Interior member. Check Services EI ...... 250-692-2412 Compassionate Care Benefits website Fort St. James ...... 250-996-8971 for who is eligible and for what forms ...... 250-699-8960 will need to be completed. Mackenzie...... 250-997-8509 https://www.canada.ca/en/services/ McBride...... 250-569-2251 ext 2003 benefits/ei/ei-compassionate.html Prince George ...... 250-565-2612 Quesnel...... 250-983-6850 ...... 250-566-9138 ext 241 Palliative Care in Your Area Vanderhoof...... 250-567-6900 Discuss your situation with your doctor Northwest and nurse practitioner. If applicable, Massett...... 250-626-4729 Queen Charlotte City...... 250-559-2321 she or he will: Prince Rupert...... 250-622-6375 • Register you with NH PC Terrace...... 250-631-4272 ...... 250-632-3181 Program Hazelton...... 250-842-4640 Smithers...... 250-847-6234 • Register you with the BC Stewart...... 250-636-2221 Palliative Care Benefits Houston...... 250-845-2294 Dease Lake...... 250-771-4444 • Discuss Compassionate Care Atlin...... 250-651-7677 Benefits with you Northeast • Refer to community supports, Fort St. John...... 250-263-6000 i.e. nursing, physiotherapy, Fort Nelson...... 250-774-7092 occupational therapy and home Hudson Hope...... 250-783-9991 support depending on your & ...250-719-6500 needs Chetwynd & ...... 250-788-7300

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10-513-6004 (IND Rev. 05/18) the northern way of caring What is Palliative Care? • At this stage of life the needs To ease the emotional and financial Palliative care is a type of health of you and your family may burden of providing care at home, NH care for people who are living with be complex; a team approach provides the following resources: is essential. In addition to active, progressive and life-limiting 1. Selected medical supplies e.g. illness. Palliative care is holistic care your family doctor or nurse practitioner, your team may wound dressings, incontinence aimed at alleviating suffering whether supplies, mouth care swabs. physical, emotional, psychosocial or include specialist doctors, spiritual. Palliative care is provided by nurses, pharmacists, social 2. Loan of equipment, as available a multidisciplinary team and may occur workers, volunteers, care aides, in your area e.g. hospital bed, alongside treatments that control or physiotherapists, occupational mobility and safety aides, manage illness. Palliative care is about therapists, respiratory therapists, commodes. promoting the best possible quality of nutritionists, aboriginal patient life for patients living with a life limiting liaison worker, spiritual care 3. Home Health Service: community illness and their family/loved ones. providers, and counselors. nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietitian, • A PC Consultation Team is also How You May be Feeling? social worker and community available to assist and advise health workers as available in Whether you are a person or family your health care team. The your community. member who has been given a Consultation Team includes a diagnosis of a life limiting illness, you doctor, nurse consultants and You must be registered by your may be feeling overwhelmed as you a pharmacist with specialized doctor and nurse practitioner with face change and loss. It is normal to training and expertise in PC. the PC Program feel this way and to experience a range before receiving these resources of emotions. The NH PC team and services are provided to support you PC Services and Resources (See Community Nursing Office numbers at the back of this on your journey. The more information Whether you are at home, in hospital, brochure) and support you and your family have, a hospice bed or a long term care you may feel more in control with more facility your health care team will information and support, and hopefully, provide; BC Palliative Care Benefits better able to cope with your journey. • Care to help relieve symptoms Provides selected prescription and (‘family’ means all those close to the such as pain, nausea, shortness over the counter medications which patient in knowledge, care and affection) of breath, fatigue, insomnia etc may be needed to control your Who provides Palliative Care? • Information on services and symptoms. For more information go to: care options, legal and financial http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ • You and your family are the matters health/practitioner-professional- center of the team. Your health • Teaching for families on how to resources/pharmacare/prescribers/plan- care team will ensure that you provide or assist with care p-bc-palliative-care-benefits-program have the knowledge and the • Emotional support understanding of your situation • Referrals to available services to enable you to make informed e.g. volunteers, counseling, and choices. support groups

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