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The documents proposed in this chronicle include texts touching various aspects of care: explicative texts, testimonies, organizational and relational strategies, care techniques and care plans, etc.

  • Music as a nursing intervention, not as crazy as it sounds by Margot Phaneuf, R.N., Ph.D. In this article, the author addresses the necessity for nursing care to go beyond interventions which are strictly medical in nature.  It looks at music, its beneficial effects and its use in various clinical situations such as with children, the elderly who are losing their cognitive autonomy or are at the end of life, with patients suffering from problems such as cancer, cardiac or respiratory difficulties, hypertension or psychological problems.
  • The therapeutic nursing plan:   The track of clinical nursing decision. Publlished by OIIQ, 2006.
  • Writing, a formative activity for the patient  by Margot Phaneuf, R.N., Ph.D. The article describes the therapeutic effects of writing for various types of patients : cancer patients, those who suffer chronic illnesses, psychiatric problems or who are terminally ill, handicapped or losing their cognitive autonomy.  It also presents the various literary genres that can be proposed.
  • The concept of humanitude as applied to general nursing care by Margot Phaneuf, R.N., Ph.D. The article is an attempt to apply the concept of humanitude to everyday nursing care and aims to show how this simple yet profound anthropological approach can give them meaning.
  • Creativity at the nurse’s service by Margot Phaneuf, R.N., Ph.D. This article describes how creativity, in all its various forms, can help the patient, whether it be by music, writing, drawing, etc.  It shows how the nurse can use these artistic means with patients who are suffering from physical or psychological problems, to distract them from their pain and to create an outlet for their distress.
  • Teaching in caregiving by Margot Phaneuf, R.N., Ph.D. This document explains the professional importance of client teaching process and his need for the sick person. It explains how to plan it, how to create a teaching relation with the patient, how to set up this teaching and to evaluate it.
  • Data collection: the basis for all nursing interventions
    by Margot Phaneuf, R.N., Ph.D. This document shows the importance of a serious observation process and data collection to base the nursing process. This text states its needed qualities, its principles and its components.
  • Notice with respect to signing “progress notes” written by students, externs in nursing care and candidates
    by Hélène d’Anjou, Lawyer from the Department of Legal Services, OIIQ with the collaboration of Jacinthe Normand, Director-consultant, Department of External Affairs, OIIQ. This text is a translation of a “legal opinion” entitled “Avis concernant la signature des notes d'évolution rédigées par les étudiantes, les externes et les candidates“ (18 mai 2005).
  • Acne treatments 
    On
    Health Canada:  It's Your Health.
  • Symptom Checker 
    On the site WebMD. It provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.
  • Temperature Measurement in Acute Care: The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How?
    by Robert C. Knies on the site of Emergency Nursing World!
  • Asthma - On the Canadian Lung Association site.
  • Ulcère de jambe
    French site contains more than 120 images that you can use freely for education and presentations. On the same site as Sante-sur-le-net.com consult Brûlures non chirurgicales and the site of the Escarre. 
     
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