The Care To Know Center

home care

Nicole Beben ... What would happen if a not-for-profit health care organization invested in projects designed to foster change? An aging population, rising health care costs and evolving technologies are driving the demand for quality and sustainable home care. In 2002, the Romanow report identified home care as the “next essential service” and a way to support sustainability and improve the quality and care of ... more

nurse navigator

nursing

Nicole M. Messier ... A nurse navigator is a registered nurse work- ing in the oncology setting who acts as ... more

cultural competency

nursing

Dr. Margaret Andrews... Cultural competencies refers to a set of con- gruent behaviors, know- ledge, attitudes and ... more

Spiritual Care at Canuck Place

palliative / spiritual care

Eric Stephanson ... Canuck Place Children's Hospice officially opened in Vancouver, British Columbia in November 1995 as the first free-standing hospice for children in the western hemisphere.  Last year, over 350 families participated in programs offered through Canuck Place. More than one hundred staff and three hundred volunteers are involved in a pattern of interdisciplinary collaborative teamwork to support each ... more

a flickering of light

spiritual care

Sr. Karin Dufault ... My interest in the topic of hope stems from my early years as a nurse and my life as a Sister ... more

partner support

partner care

Dr. Kathleen Mahoney... It appears from numerous studies that partner support and marital quality are positively related. Partner ... more

doing ethics

ethics

Prof. Margaret Somerville ... In 1980, there were approxi- mately fourteen specia- lity journals in ... more

ethics of care

ethics

Prof. Tristram Engelhardt... Care itself is controversial. There is not one ethic or bioethics of care. This is the case because morality ... more

The Language of Loss

Christine Jonas Simpson ... When a baby dies prior to birth a woman and her family begin a life long journey of  ... more

Energy and Medicine

Maryann Brown ... People’s experience of illness is often beyond what is treated by conventional medicine. The difference ... more

innovating to adapt

community care

Eric Hong ... As the burden of after hour on-call duty took its toll the number of physicians willing to undertake such work dwindled over time. The philanthropic environment has also ... more

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global nursing shortage

nursing

Dr. Evelyn A. Dogbey ... The nursing profession have been talking a lot about the aging of the nursing workforce and the shortage that will occur as these nurses retire or leave the profession ...more

nursing informatics

technology

Helen Edwards ... As health care and nursing practice have evolved, the computer has become the most powerful tool to transform the nursing profession in the past century ... more

in the internet age

technology

Dr. Carol Bond ... Traditionally doctors and nurses have been intermediaries in this patient – information relationship. With the development of a more interactive Internet however patients are now ...more

performance improvement

emergency dept.

Kate Pengelly ... PIP is one component of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Emergency Department – Alternative Levels of Care Strategy ... more

dance of the home visit

home care

Prof. Judith Bonaduce ... As an instructor, I search for mean- ingful ways to engage my senior nursing students, ways that will encourage them to become engaged as active learners ... more

every second counts

technology

Brenda Lambert ... In health care, every second counts and a new hands free communications device is making instant communication a reality at the St Thomas Elgin General ... more

health care aides

health care aides

Dr. Susan McClement ... Our group received funding to conduct a qualitative pilot study aimed at explicating the types of experiences that health care aides identify as being ethically ... more