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Joseph
Mallord William Turner: Mind, Body, and Soul; A
Guide to Living with Cancer
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This course meets the qualifications for 10 hours of continuing education units
| Mind,
Body, and Soul; A Guide to Living with Cancer was
created to guide patients and families through the entire cancer experience,
beginning with the initial diagnosis. For
the professional caregiver, it is an in-depth study of how the psychosocial,
physical, and emotional variables associated with living with cancer,
impact upon the patient’s /family’s ability to function
and cope. Readers are taken on an intimate journey that empowers them to know themselves. find quality in life, have freedom from pain, confront their own mortality, and experience dignity in sickness and/or in death. Mind, Body, and Soul guides patients,family,and loved ones through the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of cancer. It spans the entire spectrum of treatment and course of illness. This hardcover, 336-page book is indexed and contains an exhaustive resource appendix that helps the reader access information on free hospitalization, low-cost prescriptions, free medications, and free travel to clinical trials, free supplies, and information on support organizations. Readers are given in-depth information on managing treatment symptoms, pain, giving and receiving quality care, and overcoming stress and fear. There are also chapters on new advances in cancer treatment, answered prayers, visions, and miracles. You will hear the words of the great philosophers about the meaning of life, self, and soul that are filled with hope. This book contains the collective wisdom the author has acquired over the years. It is a book that no clinician, cancer patient or their family should do without. For the professional caregiver, it is an in-depth study of how the psychosocial, physical, and emotional variables associated with living with cancer, impact upon the patient’s /family’s ability to function and cope. The clinician will learn that patient/family-based positive outcomes are dependent upon the clinician’s knowledge, ability, and willingness to intercede, advocate and manipulate the variables associated with the cancer experience. Mind, Body, and Soul, was written by an experienced nurse who answers all the questions asked by her many hundreds of cancer patients. This book contains the collective wisdom she has acquired over the years. It is for your Mind, Body, and Soul. |
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists - www.psychceu.com maintains
responsibility for this program and its content.
Nancy Hassett Dahm is a registered nurse who specializes in cancer care.
Her experience in caring for over 400 cancer patients, since 1991, is
the basis of knowledge for this book. Over the years, she has developed
a clear and powerful vision of the problems and concerns of those who
are facing cancer.
