Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Contents:; Overview of cancer pain / Yvonne D?Arcy -- Assessing pain in patients with cancer / Yvonne D?Arcy -- Using non-opioid medications for cancer pain / Yvonne D?Arcy -- Opioid medications for cancer pain / Yvonne D?Arcy -- Co-analgesics for additive pain relief in cancer patients / Yvonne D?…
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…
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Contents:; Cellular mechanisms of chemotherapy -- Pharmacologic principles of chemotherapy -- Pharmacogenomics and chemotherapy -- Principles and standards of antineoplastic therapy administration -- Administration of hazardous drugs in the perioperative setting -- Immunotherapy : agents and target…
Contents:; 1: Basis of Carcinogenesis; 2: Epidemiology and Prevention; 3: Evidence-Based Nursing in Basic Anticancer Treatment: Management of the Most Important Side Effects; 4: The Patients? Journey with Targeted Therapies; 5: Immunotherapy: New Challenges for Nursing; 6: Robotic Surgery; 7: Relat…
Contents:; 1 Introduction -- 2 The Cancer Problem -- 3 The Experience of Cancer -- 4 Supportive and Palliative Care -- 5 Clinical Management of Cancer -- 6 Management of Major Cancers -- 7 Symptom Management -- 8 Oncological Emergencies.
Contents:; Physical activity and cancer survival -- Promoting physical activity for cancer survivors -- FITT principle for physical activity -- Assessing readiness for physical activity -- Assessing readiness for physical activity : physical -- Considerations -- Evaluating tolerance and adherence t…
Physiology of Wound Healing; Structure of the skin and the normal healing process; Factors that influence wound healing; Conclusion; Wound Assessment; Principles of assessment; Assessing the patient with a wound; Management of Specific Wound Types; Necrotic wounds; Sloughy wounds; Granulating and e…