Spirituality, as an essential part of holistic care, is concerned with faith and meaning, and is usually conceptualised as a 'higher' experience or a transcendence of oneself. A resurgence of interest in this area is evident in post modern culture because of the effects that spirituality and religious beliefS may have on health. Up until the last two decades, spirituality and spiritual care, al...

Digital Object Identifi er: 10.1188/06.ONF.1047 The better we understand ourselves and the nature of the work that we do, the better able we will be to mold the next generation. In the first years of my tenure as editor of the Oncology Nursing Forum, I had the opportunity to edit a supplement to the September 1994 issue that contained articles based on research sponsored by the Oncology Nursing...

Work-related stress emanating from close interpersonal contact with patients with cancer and their families may result in physical, emotional, social, and spiritual adversity for oncology nurses. The negative result of this cumulative distress has historically been referred to as burnout. However, this dated term does not truly depict the result of the longitudinal workplace ramifications of sa...

Objective This cross-sectional, quantitative epidemiological study was aimed at finding out the degree of work-related stress among the staff nurses working in oncology. Methods This study was conducted on 81 out of 100 oncology-trained nurses working in various oncology centers of Indian Army who consented to participate in it. It was carried out in five oncology centers of our organization ...

Over the past several years, whenever an informal group of Asian oncology nurses gathered, they talked about their mutual desire to create an organization closer to their homes that would be similar to the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS). They saw this as a means for more of their colleagues to learn about the latest in cancer nursing and to have a time and place to network among thems...

The integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional cancer care in Canada is in its nascent stages. While most patients use CAM during their cancer experience, the majority does not receive adequate support from their oncology health care professionals (HCPs) to integrate CAM safely and effectively into their treatment and care. A variety of factors influence this l...

BACKGROUND Sexual health and function frequently are overlooked by healthcare professionals despite being identified as an essential aspect of patient care. Patients with cancer have identified sexuality issues as being of equal importance to other quality-of-life issues. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the views and attitudes of oncology nurses caring for cancer patients re...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To present key recommendations from a recently released Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on high-quality cancer care. DATA SOURCES The recommendations were derived from the IOM report Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis. DATA SYNTHESIS The authors reviewed each of the recommendations to identify implications for oncology nur...

background : based on the literature review that was conducted, no research study has been found in australia to provide a detailed understanding of why nurses differ in their perceptions about cancer patients’ quality of life (qol) when they  communicate with patients in oncology wards. methods : this descriptive exploratory qualitative study was completed in 2007 in two major public hospitals...