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.
Surgery sourcebook : basic consumer health information about common inpatient and outpatient surgeries, including critical care and trauma, gastrointestinal, gynecologic and obstetric, cardiac and vascular, neurologic, ophthalmologic, orthopedic, reconstructive and cosmetic, and other major and min…
Table of Contents:; Chapter 1: Searching Generally -- Chapter 2: How Google Works -- Chapter 3: Searching Google Web -- Chapter 4: Power Searching for Primary Sources Using Google Web -- Chapter 5: Google Scholar and Scholarly Content -- Chapter 6: Google Books -- Chapter 7: Google as a Complement…
Table of Contents:; The heat is on: a case study -- A dozen reasons to care about patient satisfaction -- How to get physicians to engage on patient satisfaction-six steps that work in the real world -- Dealing with the objections of skeptical physicians -- How physicians can make and sustain indiv…
Passion and compassion for low income women of color is not an issue of lacking empathy, scientific or medical care. It is a social issue. Health care providers do their best to support, encourage, treat, and motivate those living with cancer; but many do not have the resources, training, or prepar…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Library | Available |
Contents:; Making the Transition from Clinical Oncology Nursing to Oncology Nurse Navigation -- Starting with the Basics : The History of Navigation -- Roles, Responsibilities, Models of Navigation, and Oncopolitics -- A Prerequisite to Effectively and Efficiently Navigating Your Oncology Patient -…
Table of Contents:; Overview of nurse navigation -- Getting started as a nurse navigator -- How to start and expand a nurse navigation program -- Navigation considerations when working with patients -- Breast cancer navigation -- Cancer site-specific navigation -- Setting-specific navigation -- Exa…
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…
Contents:; 1. Introduction -- 2. From Medical Paternalism to Care Partnerships. A Logical Evolution Over Several Decades -- 3. The Participation of Patients and Relatives in Quebec?s Health System. The Montréal Model -- 4. Implementing Patient and Carer Participation in Self-Care and Co-Care in Swe…
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…
The handouts are intended for patients and are written for sixth to eight grade reading levels. The online resource is not licensed for public use - handouts must be printed off to be given to patients.
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 …
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Library | Available |
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…
Table of Contents:; 1 A New Way of Diagnosing -- 2 Do I Really Need This Test? -- 3 When Clinicians Disagree -- 4 The Expanded Role of Pharmacists -- 5 Better Treatment for Chronic Problems and Common Conditions -- 6 Getting Patients Engaged -- 7 The Pros and Cons of "Doctor Google" -- 8 Nurses and…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
"Librarians are uniquely positioned to rise to the challenge that artificial intelligence (AI) presents to the field. Libraries and their like have existed for millennia; they progress with society, altering and adapting their services to meet the information needs of their communities. The Rise of…
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…
