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How can nurses deliver effective and compassionate
healthcare to drug users? This taut, compelling documentary
follows a team of “street nurses” as they reach out to prevent
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases by taking
their services directly to the young people, sex workers,
and homeless men and women living in the alleys, parks, shelters,
and skid row hotels of the inner city.
Focusing on the principles of health promotion and harm reduction,
the dedicated registered nurses of British Columbia’s groundbreaking
Street Nurse Program provide health care to these profoundly
underserved populations in traditional clinic settings or
wherever their patients can be found.
Bevel Up is the core of an innovative training package
that features the 45-minute documentary as well as a chaptered
version divided into eight sections, with each chapter followed
by commentary from the nurses, a nursing ethicist and a nursing
practitioner. Additional teaching material includes 26 interviews
with experts on topics related to drug use (mental health
and drugs, pregnancy and drugs, native American issues, fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder, addiction, sex work, rural nursing,
etc.) French subtitles are also available. A 100-page Teaching
Guide augments the DVD with lesson plans, ideas for discussion,
and additional resources. From the National Film Board
of Canada.
Hot Docs International Film Festival,
2008 Official Selection
Featured on National Public Radio's,
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
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