BACKGROUND As patient advocates, oncology nurses must attend to varying levels of health literacy among patients and families. However, little is known about nurses' experiences and comfort with health literacy assessment and providing health literacy support.
. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to explore nurse communication and patient health literacy.
. METHODS A cross-sectional su...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To survey nurses about their knowledge of cancer survivorship care. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING Midwestern comprehensive cancer center. SAMPLE 223 registered and advanced practice nurses. METHODS Online survey of survivorship knowledge using a 50-item questionnaire derived from the Institute of Medicine report and related publications. MAIN RESEARCH...

Subcutaneous (SC) administration of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib was approved in the United States and European Union in 2012. There is limited guidance regarding how to administer SC bortezomib and a general lack of clear direction on optimal techniques for administering SC chemotherapy injections. Nurses may be utilizing different techniques, and inconsistent techniques may result in i...

Managed care is a process of health-care management that integrates financing, cost-containment strategies, and business principles with the delivery of health care. Managed care's rapid transformation of specialty practices, such as oncology, is redirecting classic nursing functions toward market initiatives that value the design of care/case management systems and the implementation of multid...

BACKGROUND Major obstacles exist in the care of patients at the end of life: lack of time, poor or inadequate communication, and lack of knowledge in providing care. Three possible nursing roles in care decision-making were investigated: Information Broker, Supporter, and Advocate. The purpose of this study was to examine obstacles faced by oncology nurses in providing end-of-life (EOL) care an...

Purpose The effects of burnout can have serious consequence for individual nurse's, patients and healthcare organisations. aim this study was to assess prevalence predictors work-life balance amongst haemato-oncology nurses. Methods This employed a cross-sectional survey design. Haematology cancer nurses attending 2-day conference in Ireland, during Oct 2019 were recruited. Anonymised data coll...

In 2008, the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) initiated a multi-year project to develop and test quality measures in areas judged by oncology nurses as high-priority opportunities to improve quality of life for patients across the cancer continuum, and to provide education to oncology nurses on how to achieve high-quality care. Supported through a grant to the ONS Foundation by the Breast Cancer ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the implementation and refinement of a yearly research utilization (RU) course for oncology nurses. DESIGN Formative program evaluation. SAMPLE 22 oncology nurses selected based on competitively reviewed project proposals. METHODS The one-day RU course was held five times prior to the annual fall Oncology Nursing Society conference. The course consisted of b...

abstract background: although nurses acknowledge that spiritual care is part of their role, in reality, it is performed to a lesser extent. the purpose of the present study was to explore nurses’ and patients’ experiences about the conditions of spiritual care and spiritual interventions in the oncology units of tabriz. materials and methods: this study was conducted with a qualitative conventi...

Understanding compassion fatigue and devising and implementing interventions to address the subject are important for nurses and patients. However, few literature reports exist that address interventions for nurses who experience compassion fatigue. This article discusses how nurses on a medical-surgical oncology unit in an academic, community Magnet™ hospital adopted these themes as a conceptu...