Oncology education can impact nursing students' attitudes toward oncology and their interest in oncology nursing. To explore that relationship, a literature search was conducted using the CINAHL®, Cochrane Library, ERIC®, PubMed, and Scopus® databases. Nineteen pertinent studies were incorporated into the review, and recommendations were graded by strength of evidence schemas. The reviewed lite...

conclusions this study highlighted the influential factors that could produce role conflict for nursing faculty members. the results can help university leaders to improve nursing faculty working conditions. results the three following categories emerged from data analysis: “roles interference”; “role ambiguity”, and “conflicting expectations”. the main theme was “working in conflict climate”. ...

preservation of dignity is frequently emphasized as a basic patient’s right in national and international nursing codes of ethics and is indeed the essence and core of nursing care. it is therefore essential to explore the concept based on patients’ lived experiences in order to maintain and respect their dignity and consequently improve the quality of health services and patient satisfaction. ...

Adolescence (ages 13-18) is a time of dynamic development in a young person’s life, and can be profoundly affected with long-term consequences when confronted prematurely with mortality, due to the diagnoses and treatment of cancer. Adventure-based therapy (ABT), which uses outdoor leisure activities with an element of risk, has been shown to have a positive impact on the physical, psychologica...

OBJECTIVE Many countries carry a high cancer burden and comprehensive cancer nursing is becoming increasingly complicated and difficult. Summarizing the recent research focus on cancer nursing may provide a snapshot of this field for those nurses or nurse educators who are in need of a quick overview of the research and its utilization. METHODS Candidate publications from January 1st 2001 to ...

Health care restructuring has resulted in significant changes in the workload and work environment for oncology nurses. While recent studies describe the impact of these changes on the general nursing workforce in several countries, there have been no published studies that have focused on worklife issues of Canadian oncology nurses. Therefore, a qualitative study was conducted to gain insight ...

Background: Effective communication with patients is an essential part of nursing care. However, most researches have reported that communication of nurses with patients is weak. The quality of provided care, especially communication with the patients, is one of the main concerns of nursing education managers. Therefore, we conducted a study with the aim of improving communication skills in cli...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To illuminate the experiences of oncology nurses who participated in an evidence-based practice (EBP) project in an institution with an EBP organizational structure. RESEARCH APPROACH A descriptive phenomenologic approach and in-depth interviews with each participant. SETTING An oncology-focused academic medical center with an established organizational infrastructure for...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine how oncology nurses define palliative care, views about who should and should not receive palliative care, and beliefs about palliative care decision making, including who should be involved and how decisions should be managed. DESIGN Qualitative interviews and analysis. SETTING Preferred location of each respondent. SAMPLE 12 nurses representing different as...