Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common and severe symptom experienced by patients undergoing cancer treatment during the acute or delayed period. Individual characteristics can compound risk for CINV. Identification of risk factors for CINV and structured, nurse-led telephone follow-up are effective, evidence-based methods to support patients undergoing cancer treatment. Th...

The oncology practice setting can be a highly emotional workplace because nurses provide care to many of the same patients and their families over time. Comparing and contrasting nurses from different clinical settings would provide insight into the more common themes of nursing grief and might give guidance on how to educate nurses about this in different practice settings. One way in which ma...

235 Denise M. Linton, DNS(c), FNP, BC, is a nurse practitioner at the Louisiana State University Lallie Kemp Medical Center in Independence. Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or the Oncology Nursing Society. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/09.CJON.235-237 Cervical Cancer Screeni...

21 Carmen Jacobs, RN, OCN®, is a research nurse supervisor in the Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology Department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Editorial assistance was provided by Meniscus Health Care Communications through an educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/09.CJON.21-23 Neuroendocrine Tumors A Rare Finding:...

WORKED IN a thoracic unit before starting the conversion course to first level registered nurse. I have now completed the course and arranged an interview for the oncology department of a new hospital.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify the specific administrative, clerical, patient care, patient education, and research responsibilities that licensed nursing personnel perform in the field of radiation oncology. DESIGN Descriptive. SAMPLE 281 licensed nursing personnel employed in the field of radiation oncology in North America. METHODS Subjects completed a six-page, self-administered quest...

The role of the pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in the comprehensive management of pediatric oncology patients in the inpatient setting was examined at a large tertiary teaching hospital. This article shows role responsibilities including new diagnosis teaching, procedures, routine chemotherapy, patients' comprehensive medical management, coordination of nursing care across settings, phone t...

Krista Rawson, RN, BScN, MN, NP, is nurse practitioner with CancerControl Alberta Health Services and currently works as the Senior Practice Consultant for Advanced Practice Nursing. Her NP practice has been both at tertiary urban centres and in community oncology. She is a past recipient of the Award of excellence in Nursing Clinical Practice from the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology...

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...

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...