Supporting Self-Care: Perspectives of Nurse and Physician Educators

Health Canada presents the proceedings of two workshops exploring the perspectives of physician and nurse educators on how to help health professionals to become more skillful and successful in supporting self-care.  This report will be of particular interest to teachers in the field of medicine and nursing as well as to other health care professionals and students.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Executive Summary
Toronto workshop (January 30-31, 1998)

1. Introduction, Background and Objectives
2. Barriers and Opportunities
3. Learning about three self-care initiatives
4. Visioning for the future
5. Setting an agenda for action
6. Conclusion

Appendix A: Agenda
Appendix B: Participant list
Appendix C: Self-help centres and contacts across Canada
Appendix D: Key facts: Partnerships for better health

Montreal workshop (March 13-14, 1998)

1. Introduction
2. Interdisciplinary brainstorming in three steps
3. Conclusion

Appendix A: Quotes from experience summaries
Appendix B: List of participants
Figure 1: Camille's Flower -- Person-centred health care system