background and purpose: research self-efficacy is an important subject in university education. research is considered essential to the development of societies. as such, postgraduate students require research courses in their curricula in addition to regular educational contents. materials and methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on two groups of postgraduate students...

Despite nursing's enthusiastic endorsement of the applicability of qualitative research approaches to answering relevant clinical questions, many nurse researchers have been hesitant to depart from traditional qualitative research methods. While various derivations of phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography have been popularized within qualitative nursing research, the methodological pr...

The December 2014 issue of the European Journal of Oncology Nursing published an article by Näppä, Rasmussen, Axelsson, and Lindqvist that reported on a qualitative study of the challenges experienced by Swedish nurses when administering palliative cancer treatment at the end of life. The study identified the various clinical scenarios that create dilemmas among nurses. The authors described wh...

The European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS), in partnership with the Oncology Nursing Association of Turkey (TONA), organised the 9th EONS Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, 18-19 September 2014. The Congress venue was in Harbiye Cultural Centre and Istanbul Military Museum and offered two days of unprecedented scientific, educational, and networking opportunities for all stakeholders active in the...

Lydia T. Madsen, RN, MSN, OCN , is a senior research nurse in the Department of Urology and Elizabeth Ganey-Code, MSN, RN, OCN, is the associate director of clinical nursing in the Division of Nursing, both at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. (The solutions offered to the clinical problems posed in this column are the opinions of the authors and do not represent t...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the Oncology Nursing Society's (ONS's) research priorities for 2001-2005 for oncology nursing across the entire scope of cancer care, including prevention, detection, treatment, and palliative care. DESIGN A cross-sectional, mailed survey. SAMPLE Stratified by the general member group (i.e., a random sample of 1,850 ONS members) and researcher group (i.e., ce...

The creation of knowledge by pediatric nurse scientists that informs and directs everyday nursing practice is essential to delivering safe effective care children. health our children at stake due current statistics showing a steady decline in nurses lack with PhDs. objectives this paper are to: Summarize the demands on care. Express concern there insufficient produce fundamental needed direct ...

Department of Oncology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Life Science Zurich Graduate School, Zurich, Switzerland; Children’s Research Center, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Zabrze, Medical Univer...

For nursing professionals, death is the greatest villain of their work since, in general, they are educated to take care of life only. The purpose of this study is to investigate how nursing professionals experience mourning when facing the death of hospitalized children/adolescents. Therefore, authors used a qualitative descriptive-exploratory research. Data were collected through interviews w...

Dildar Bahar Genç1, Sema Vural1, Nafiye Urgancı2, Tuğçe Kurtaraner3, Nazan Dalgıç4 1Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Oncology, İstanbul, Turkey 2Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Gastroenterology, İstanbul, Turkey 3Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Pediatrics, İstanbul, Turkey 4Şişli Hami...