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Facilitating Client Centred Learning (Client)

This fact sheet is geared toward the client and offers tips on how to prepare before visiting the health-care provider, what ask during the visit and before leaving.

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Facilitating Client Centred Learning (Health-Care Providers)

This fact sheet is geared toward the health-care professional. It highlights the best practice guideline recommendations and offers tips on how to facilitate client centred learning.

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Five Measures You Can Take to Protect Yourself (From Abuse and Neglect—to be used where best practices occur)

Nurses and other health-care providers want you to know they can help you deal with a serious threat to your health—abuse and neglect.

Did you know that signs of abuse and neglect are not always easy to spot? You may not even know that you are being mistreated. That’s why it is so important to talk about the issue with a trained nurse or health-care provider.

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Getting ready for ostomy surgery: A fact sheet for adults

An ostomy is an opening in your abdomen, created through surgery to allow the removal of waste (stool or urine) from your body. The surgery results in a stoma. An ostomy bag (pouch) is placed over your stoma to collect the waste and protect the skin. Your ostomy may be permanent or temporary.

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Helping people manage their pain

You may need to seek assistance from a health-care professional when you have concerns about people you care for who are in pain.

Uncontrolled pain is a common problem. Pain can affect anyone at any age and include people who are unable to communicate that they are experiencing some form of pain. If people have pain during their day-to-day activities or during any medical procedure, this can affect the way they behave and function. This behaviour may cause you to feel helpless and distressed, especially if you can not help them with their pain and they are not able to speak for themselves.

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