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.
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Table of Contents :; Introduction to advance care planning -- Overview and introduction to advance care planning -- What are the benefits of advance care planning and how do we know? -- An introduction to advance care planning: practice at the frontline -- Person-centred care: how does advance care…
Contents:; Introduction : First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada : Understanding the Issues -- Western and Indigenous Ways of Knowing -- Cultural Competency, Cultural Sensitivity and Cultural Safety -- Historical Overview -- Understanding the Determinants of Health and Canada?s Native Popu…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Library | Available |
An orientation; Basics of quality improvement; Advance care planning; Preventing, assessing, and treating pain; Assuring comfort; Caring for caregivers; Continuity and transfers; Chronic care: heart and lung failure; Nursing home quality: pressure ulcers; Improving care for people with advanced dem…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
Contents:; Introduction : health equity does not equal health equality / Janice M. Phillips and Margaret P. Moss -- Nursing as a force for health equity / Joanne Disch -- Evidence-based policymaking / Myra Michelle DeBose, Ejim Sule, and Debbie Ann Jones -- Health equity and nursing education : pas…
"It feels as though the field of health equity has finally come into its time. Conversations about the presence of health disparities have evolved into discussions of how to eliminate them, which have in turn evolved into a broader movement to truly achieve equity in health predictors, statuses, an…
Table of Contents:; I Use of palliative care in chronic conditions and the Affordable Care Act -- Patient protection and the Affordable Care Act -- Patient-centered outcomes of care -- Self-management in chronic disease -- Care of multiple chronic conditions -- Comparative effectiveness research --…
"An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners. The Last Doctor recounts Marmoreo's crash course in MAiD and introduces a range of very different and memorable…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
Contents:; Introduction to ethics -- Contemporart ethical dilemmas -- End-of-life dilemmas -- Health care ethics committee -- Development of law -- Introduction to law -- Government ethics and the law -- Oganizational ethics and the law -- Health care professional legal-ethical issues -- Physician?…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
"In this critical study of current cancer therapies, Dr. Prasad, an oncologist and hematologist, examines oncology practice and policy in the United States. His book is organized into four sections: (1) an overview of cancer drugs, (2) forces that distort cancer medicine and practice, (3) details a…
Contents:; Joanie?s people : discarding the masks of shame -- Heartland : where the cure can be worse than the disease -- The long sentence : and the first shall be last -- Restoring the song : lessons for the hard of hearing.
