Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing (Biseau vers le haut) follows nurses from the outreach street program of the BC Centre for Disease Control as they provide effective—and non-judgmental—health care to men and women in Vancouver’s inner city. "Bevel Up" is a compelling, award-winning documentary that chronicles their extraordinary work using harm reduction as a cornerstone of best nursing practice in providing care to injecting drug users, sex workers and other marginalized populations. Directed by the noted filmmaker Nettie Wild and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the BCCDC outreach nurses themselves, “Bevel Up” has been screened to acclaim at film festivals in Canada and other countries.

The groundbreaking teaching DVD combines a 45-minute documentary with an additional 3.5 hours of in-depth expert interviews and additional footage structured around the key ethical, practical and legal issues faced by health practitioners – questions that examine the intersection of health care and drug use. Available in English and with French subtitles, the DVD also includes a 100-page English teaching manual and a French-language version of the teaching manual on a CD-ROM.

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"The documentary Bevel Up has been an essential teaching tool in the establishment of our outreach services. It has created a forum for educating, stimulating discussion and encouraging us to challenge our thinking about nursing practice. The newly established Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH) program in Halifax has used Bevel Up as the core teaching tool for the health team. This team will deliver primary health care to people who are underserved by the traditional health care system. Bevel Up is refreshing because it allows us to speak openly about what it means to offer care in the "individual's box" not the "box" created by the system." - Patti Melanson, Nurse Coordinator from the Mobile Outreach Street Health program (MOSH) in Halifax Nova Scotia