Professionals who care for long-term and seriously ill patients frequently experience distressing emotional situations and profound suffering. These emotions can include the need to ‘rescue’ patients, a sense of failure and frustration when the illness progresses, feelings of powerlessness against the illness and its associated losses, grief, fear of becoming ill oneself and a desire to remain ...

Salinity is one of the major environmental stresses for plants (Greenway and Munns, 1980). Based on their ability to grow on salt medium, plants, including crop species, are traditionally classified as glycophytes, showing the effects of salt at concentrations less than 50 mM, or halophytes which can complete their life cycles at 500 mM (Flowers, 1985; Maas, 1986). Although glycophytes generall...

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Volume 25, Issue 1, WInter 2015 • CanadIan onCology nursIng Journal reVue CanadIenne de soIns InfIrmIers en onCologIe AbstrAct Complex support needs are involved in coping with a diagnosis of melanoma. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived social support levels and utilization of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies by Canadian melanoma patients. The impact of social su...

Background: Observing ethical principles is a part of nursing occupation and nurses should be aware of the importance of this subject when providing nursing care in order to provide their skills based on occupational ethics. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and the workplace spirituality with the nurses’ occupational et...