Media advisory: Managing the diversity and complexity of chronic disease symptoms, by Dr. Marylin Dodd
When it comes to chronic diseases such as cancer, managing symptoms is essentially the responsibility of both patients and their families with help from health professionals. This situation often leaves patients and families struggling to find the best way to keep symptoms under control, while those same symptoms may interfere with their ability to enjoy life. Nurses can play a role in helping them in this process by advising and coaching patients in management techniques that can greatly improve their health status and capacity to function in their daily lives.
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Lecture : The Pro-Self Program : self-care intervention to
reduce patient morbidity
Who: Dr Marylin Dodd
Where: H么pital G茅n茅ral de Montr茅al
When : Vendredi 21 novembre 2008, 脿 13h00
The entrance is free. The lecture will be in English.
Dre. Marylin Dodd is the Director of the Center
for Symptom Management, and Emerita Professor of the School of
Nursing, at the University of Caifornia in San Francisco. Her
research focus on the patient's experience with symptom management,
mainly in relation to cancer. She has developed an innovative and
very successful self-care intervention program called
PRO-SELF.
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hospitals are the Montreal Children's Hospital, the Montreal
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contribute to the development of new knowledge.
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1200 graduate and post-doctoral students and operates more than 300
laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and
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benefit directly from the latest research-based knowledge.
The Research Institute of the MUHC is supported in part by the
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