Oncology nursing forum
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Oncology nursing forum · Nov 1999
Multicenter StudyNurses' attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients.
To examine possible relationships among the demographic variables of nurses and their attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients. ⋯ Professionals who are responsible for designing educational programs focused on nurses' attitudes toward caring for terminally ill patients may want to include an assessment of death attitudes and interventions aimed at decreasing negative attitudes and increasing positive attitudes toward death in such programs.
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To describe an intensive nurse practitioner (NP)-managed smoking cessation clinic that evolved from a primary-care quality-management initiative. ⋯ Nurses can replicate this practice in a variety of healthcare settings. Innovations in clinical practice often facilitate research studies to further define effective approaches for smoking cessation. Nurses need to identify and target smoking as the serious health problem it is and conduct much-needed research on cessation approaches within the inpatient and outpatient settings.