Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing
is an educational kit (including a DVD, subtitled in French, with special features and a bilingual Teaching Guide) created to share knowledge not found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals. It shows how registered nurses working with the BC Centre for Disease Control's Street Nurse Program provide health care to the people living in the alleys and hotels of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Designed and produced by the street nurses themselves in collaboration with community members, Bevel Up offers instructors and students access to the experience of an entire community of health care practitioners who work with drug using populations.
“Compassionate and thoroughly professional… Bevel Up belongs in nursing colleges and medical schools across the country.” – Dr. Perry Kendall, BC Provincial Health officer
“As a recovered addict who spent time on the streets of Toronto, I have never seen a more accurate or compassionate documentary about addictions.”
– Anonymous
"Overall fabulous… What a diverse and engaging way to deliver many messages and information"
– PHN Prenatal Educator, Nova Scotia
"It taught me how much more I need to learn about substance use and misuse and how I might integrate it into teaching."
– Nurse Educator, University of Toronto