Hematology-related diseases, such as anemia, malaria, sickle cell disease (SCD), and blood cancers, have differing rates of survival between high-income and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Nurses in LMICs have an unmet need for specialty training and education to address hematology and hemato-oncology disorders. A gap in the literature exists about hematology nurse education and clini...

Patients with cancer have multiple psychosocial needs during inpatient admissions. However, nurses often are not sure how to best approach those psychosocial needs. Therefore, the purpose of this survey was to determine the educational needs of inpatient oncology nurses in terms of providing psychosocial care to patients and to determine the barriers that inpatient nurses experience when provid...

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/03.CJON.591-594 In 1994, the first cancer susceptibility gene to be associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer was identified and became known as breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1). In 1995, a second gene was identified and became known as BRCA2 (Calus, Schildkraut, Thompson, & Risch, 1996). With the identification of these two genes, a new field emerged i...

individuals handling antineoplastic drugs or their wastes may absorb these potent genotoxic agents. the effects of handling antineoplastic drugs were examined in a group of 24 nurses working in the hematology and oncology departments of two different university hospitals in shiraz (iran) and in a group of 18 unexposed nurses as control group. the cytogenetic repercussions of exposure were asses...

The impact of the current nursing shortage on the health care system is receiving attention by both state and federal governments. This study, using a convenience sample of 243 oncology/haematology nurses working in 11 Queensland health care facilities, explored factors that influence the quality of nurses' working lives. Although nurses reported high levels of personal satisfaction and persona...

Oncology nursing, like many other nursing fields, often provides nurses with the opportunity to get to know their patients and their families well. This familiarity allows oncology nurses to show a level of compassion and empathy that is often helpful to the patient and their family during their struggle with cancer. However, this familiarity can also lead to a profound sense of grief if the pa...

OBJECTIVE To familiarize oncology nurses about the theory and research related to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for management of cancer-related symptoms. DATA SOURCES Peer-reviewed journal articles, TCM texts, professional experience. CONCLUSION The increasing integration of TCM into mainstream medicine mandates that oncology professionals be familiar with the benefits as well as risk...

Article extracted from a Master's dissertation whose objective was to characterize the interaction of nurses with nursing diagnoses in neurosurgical oncology, considering behaviors, expressions, attitudes and practices. The participants were sixteen nurses who work with equal or more than five years in neurosurgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. The Symbolic Interactionism was used...