The BC Cancer Library
Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Content:; Why a strengths-based approach to care? -- What guides practice? -- Values underlying strengths-based nursing care -- What are strengths? Characteristics of strengths -- Essential nurse qualities required for strengths-based care -- Retraining the eight senses for nursing practice -- Nurs…
Contents:; Stairway to cultural competency : using the staircase model -- Exploring patient focused cultural assessment models -- Cultural considerations when working with culturally diverse colleagues -- Cultural considerations when the patient?s religious or spiritual needs differ from my own -- …
Contents:; Challenges to the effectiveness of healthcare systems / response by Zane Robinson Wolf -- A values-based model of care : motivation and meaning of the dance of caring persons response / group dialogue by Rev. Ruth W. Black, W. Richard (Rick) Boyte, Ralph Didlake, Susan Shands Jones, and …
Contents:; Beginning -- Advance care planning -- Chronic illness and end of life -- Dementia and end of life -- Pain management : it?s more than knowing meds -- Physical symptom management -- Suffering : it?s not just the pain -- Active dying : the final days and hours -- After the death : the long…
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A collection of messages or 'healing updates' which the author shared with a small circle of friends after cancer diagnosis and during cancer treatment.
How to Win a Tickle Fight is a true story that follows one young father, Brock, and his family for two years as they strive to live full, meaningful lives despite the metastatic cancer diagnosis they are navigating. Brock desperately wants to leave a legacy for his 7 year old son and be remembered …
Table of Contents; PART I DISCOVERY AND DIAGNOSIS; PART II RELATING TO CANCER; PART III THE OTHER REALITIES OF PROSTATE CANCER; PART IV A LIFETIME?S JOURNEY; EPILOGUE
Table of contents:; 1. My Grandmother's and My Family's History in Manitoba and Ontario (1863-1952) -- 2. First Discoveries, Joys, and Sorrows? My Early Childhood in Ombabika (1952-1958) -- 3. Seasonal Activities, First Friendships, and the Beginning of Addiction (1958-1960) -- 4. School, Teenage F…
Table of contents:; Introduction: Why Queer and Trans Health Stories Matter -- Appendix -- Call in Sick -- Name Game: Being Seen in My Entirety -- Unlearning: Improving Trans Care by Reorienting Medical and Nursing Discourse -- Navigating This Life as a Black Intersex Man -- Confessions of a Gender…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
