NURS 5130 (PDD Term 1): Professional Communication I

Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CNFU) reports and news releases:

• Nursing workload and patient care
  This 2012 report includes recommendations on addressing inadequate nurse staffing.
   
• Governments need to act now: nurses are hanging on by a thread 
  Feb. 2022 news release from the CFNU

e-Books:

• Nurse burnout: Combating stress in nursing
  This 2016 e-book has a single user license, i.e. only one person can access it at a time.
   
• Compassion fatigue and burnout in nursing: Enhancing professional quality of life
  This 2014 e-book published by Springer has unlimited simultaneous users.

• Informed consent for immunization (BC Centre for Disease Control)
• Immunization Communication Tool (ICT) for Immunizers (BC Centre for Disease Control)
• Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals: 1st Canadian Edition (eCampus Ontario)
  Free open access textbook designed for post-secondary health profession programs, including nursing.
• Immunization for children (0 to 18 years) (ImmunizeBC)
  Information geared to the general public.

• Indigenous Health (Canadian Nurses Association)
• Wellness: Tips, Guides and Resources (First Nations Health Authority)

• Breast cancer and breast health - BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre
   
• Cancer Management Manual: Breast Cancer - BC Cancer
   
• Breast Cancer - Merck Manual, Professional Version

• ADHD in Adults - Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division
   
• Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre, BC Children's Hospital
   
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD, ADHD) - Merck Manual, Professional Version

• Osteoarthritis (Merk Manual Professional Version)
  Includes a section covering treatment options. Online version of the well-known medical textbook.
• Evidence-based practices for osteoarthritis management (American Nurse)
• Medical-Surgical Nursing in Canada, 5th edition (print nursing textbook, found in the Reserves area of the library)
  See Chapter 67, pp. 1666-1673 on nursing management of osteoarthritis.