PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine themes associated with falls specific to older adult patients diagnosed with cancer. DESIGN Prospective, exploratory, qualitative study. SETTING A senior adult oncology program at a cancer and research center in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE Men and women aged 70 years and older with any cancer diagnosis who had experienced a fall within three months...

Since the inception of Journal Cancer Survivorship (JCSU), founding editor-in-chief, associate editors, editorial board members, and peer reviewers have played important roles in influencing knowledge base published JCSU. The journal editors represent key disciplines, practice areas, research expertise cancer survivorship, which includes oncology hematology, pediatric oncology, health psycholog...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, surpassed only by heart disease . Approximately 1.6 million Americans will receive treatment for a variety of cancers annually . This increase in oncology nursing care opportunities highlights the need to ensure that nurses have the skills, knowledge, and tools that allow them to safely provide care. Because Undergraduate nursing...

Objective To know the levels of Burnout Syndrome and perception of grief support in nursing teams of oncology and pediatric intensive care in public hospitals in Chile. Method A study of descriptive cross-sectional design. The Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Grief Support Health Care Scale were applied to university-level and technical nursing professionals between March and November 2015. An...

PURPOSE To examine the roles of oncology nurses in improving quality care for cancer survivors. DATA SOURCES A content analysis of textbooks, journals, and key documents; surveys of graduate oncology nursing programs and the Oncology Nursing Society's Survivorship Special Interest Group; review of the nursing licensure examination and oncology nursing certification; review of undergraduate an...

In this article, the authors provide an account of Carspecken's (1996) five-stage approach to "doing" critical ethnography, or what he has termed critical qualitative research (CQR). They provide the reader with an overview of the concepts presented in Carspecken's book Critical Ethnography in Educational Research and describe how they applied several of his ideas within a research project that...

Aim: Clinical competence is to carry out the tasks with excellent results in a different of adjustments. According to various studies, one of the factors influencing clinical competence is work experience. This experience affects the integrity of students' learning experience and their practical skills. Many nursing students practice clinical work during their full-time studying. The aim of thi...

The overall purpose of research for any profession is to discover the truth of the discipline. This paper examines the controversy over the methods by which truth is obtained, by examining the differences and similarities between quantitative and qualitative research. The historically negative bias against qualitative research is discussed, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of both approa...

Researchers and educators are increasingly implementing qualitative research methods to investigate issues of concern and interest. Hermeneutics has risen as an option for the qualitative research paradigm particularly after the 1970s. The precedence of the sciences that have applied hermeneutics as their approach to investigation is provided with special reference to nursing. In the nursing sc...