Oncology nursing forum
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Oncology nursing forum · Oct 1997
Decision making by parents and healthcare professionals when considering continued care for pediatric patients with cancer.
To better define the treatment-related decisions considered most difficult by parents of pediatric patients with cancer and the factors that influenced their final decisions. ⋯ Nurses can help determine what information parents need in their decision making. Particular attention must be given to ways to communicate the likelihood of the their child's survival.
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To explore current knowledge of placebo effects, including proposed explanatory mechanisms, influencing factors, characteristics, and implications for practice and research. ⋯ Nurses can take measures to improve the patient's response to treatment, including providing a comfortable environment, using therapeutic communication techniques, helping patients to understand specific mechanisms of their treatment, and encouraging positive expectations and motivation for effectiveness.
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To explore women's perspectives of the experience of surviving breast cancer. ⋯ An awareness and description of current issues and feelings surrounding survivors of breast cancer can assist the multidisciplinary healthcare team in caring for and supporting women and their families and friends during this experience.
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Oncology nursing forum · Aug 1997
ReviewNonpharmacologic management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
To review the nonpharmacologic interventions indicated to prevent or control chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. ⋯ These behavioral interventions can be effective in reducing anticipatory and post-treatment nausea and vomiting. Oncology nurses must learn these nonpharmacologic techniques and teach their patients to use them in combination with their prescribed antiemetic therapy.