Colostomy patients' identification of learning needs in the early rehabilitation period
The creation of a permanent colostomy has implications for the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of the individual. Studies reviewed have suggested that effective patient teaching is a way of assisting individuals to develop coping strategies to manage the physical changes in the body and patterns...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27337 |