Oncology nursing forum
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To develop antiemetic guidelines to improve efficacy, optimize nursing and pharmacy time, increase compliance, and enhance cost savings. ⋯ Oncology nurses must be able to implement state-of-the-art knowledge of chemotherapy, antiemetics, and nonpharmacologic interventions to effectively manage the care of patients receiving chemotherapy. This must be performed to achieve cost effectiveness as well as useful clinical outcomes.
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Oncology nursing forum · Oct 1999
The evolving meaning of cancer for long-term survivors of breast cancer.
To discover the different meanings of cancer for older women who are long-term survivors of breast cancer. ⋯ Understanding the meaning of cancer for older women who are long-term breast cancer survivors may enhance nurses' sensitivity to survivors' perspectives. Knowledge of survivors' different meanings of cancer may help to paint a new vision of cancer survivorship comprised of potentially positive, transforming experiences.
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Oncology nursing forum · Sep 1999
Pain, psychological distress, health status, and coping in patients with breast cancer scheduled for autotransplantation.
To describe pain, psychological distress, health status, and coping that patients with breast cancer who were scheduled for autotransplantation experienced; the strength and direction of relationships among pain, psychological distress, health status, and coping; and the percentage of variance within the concept of health status that age, pain, psychological distress, and coping. ⋯ Oncology nurses need to include assessment of pain, psychological distress, health status, and coping in their routine patient assessment prior to autotransplantation to provide appropriate care and make necessary multidisciplinary referrals. Future nursing research should be directed toward the implementation and evaluation of interventions that promote the use of comprehensive coping strategies to decrease pain, anxiety, and depression.
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Oncology nursing forum · Jul 1999
Reducing burnout: development of an oncology staff bereavement program.
To understand the necessity of providing a mechanism for staff bereavement that promotes stress reduction and enhances job longevity in the oncology nursing work environment and to describe the implementation of one such program. ⋯ Educating colleagues about the multifaceted role of the oncology nurse can increase the staff's awareness of the need for support. Implementation of a program to reduce the stressors that oncology nurses encounter will encourage improved care delivery.
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To determine the amount and types of content regarding pain and end-of-life (EOL) care included in major textbooks used in nursing education. ⋯ Nursing practice is based on the foundation of nursing education. Changes in nursing school curriculum and provision of continuing education for practicing nurses are essential for improved EOL care.