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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.
Table of Contents:; 1 Definitions and key elements in palliative care -- 2 Symptom assessment -- 3 Clinical decision making -- 4 Pain assessment and management -- 5 Fatigue -- 6 Cachexia -- 7 Dehydration -- 8 Anxiety and depression -- 9 Sleep disturbance -- 10 Chronic nausea and vomiting -- 11 Cons…
Table of Contents:; Section A -- Introduction to communication studies in cancer and palliative medicine; Section B -- A core curriculum for communication skills training for oncology and palliative care; Section C -- Nursing; Section D -- A specialty curriculum for oncology; Section E -- Communica…
Table of Contents:; Introduction: patient-centered health : who, what, and how? -- Patient-centered care or patient-centered health? -- Respecting and promoting patient autonomy in research, end-of-life care, and chronic illness care -- Escaping the autonomy vs objectivity trap by re-personalizing …
Summary:; Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide, providing exhaustive information on nutrition and diet in terminal and palliative care. It covers physical, cultural and ethical aspects, bridging the intellectual divide in being suitable for nov…
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Table of Contents :; PART I: Introduction -- Why it is important to know about patients? wishes to die -- PART II: Research --Illness narratives, meaning making, and epistemic injustice in research at the end of life -- Expressed desire for hastened death in seven patients living with advanced canc…
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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…
Connection between research and evidence-based practice; Overview of research; Ethics and nursing research; Problem statement, research question, hypothesis; Literature review : searching and writing the evidence; Sampling; Quantitative research design; Qualitative research methods; Data collection…
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Contents:; Evidence-based practice / Kathleen M. White -- The science of translation and major frameworks / Kathleen M. White -- Change theories for translation / Kathleen M. White -- Translation of evidence for improving clinical outcomes / Julie Stanik-Hutt -- Translation of evidence for improvin…
Contents:; Overview of evidence-based practice / Mary D. Bondmass -- General searching : finding research reports / Ulrike Dieterle and Christopher Hooper-Lane -- Research and the mandate for evidence-based practice, quality, and patient safety / Kathleen R. Stevens -- Establishing and sustaining a…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a process of shared decision-making between clinicians and patients based on research evidence, the patient's experiences and preferences, and the clinician's clinical expertise. We are now well beyond the Institute of Medicine (IOM) goal that 90% of healthcare be e…
