People with cancer in the UK should have access to a full spectrum of services. The role of the clinical nurse specialist is an important part of this development. In the specialty of urology/oncology, this role is still a relatively new development although the incidence of urological malignancy readily compares with other site-specific cancers.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the professional opportunities for licensed nursing personnel in radiation oncology within the conceptual framework developed for ambulatory care nurses by the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN). DATA SOURCES Published articles and books. DATA SYNTHESIS Using AAACN's framework, the researchers identified three roles that are part of every ambu...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate the quality of evidence on sleep-wake disturbances in people with cancer as a basis for clinical decision making and to discuss implications of the evidence for oncology clinicians, educators, and researchers. DATA SOURCES Published, peer-reviewed articles. DATA SYNTHESIS Members of the 2001 Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Advanced Practice Nurse Retreat Eviden...

BACKGROUND Reliable and valid outpatient oncology acuity-based staffing systems are lacking. The existing staffing model in a midwestern cancer center demonstrated inefficiencies related to unpredictable patient flow, treatment regimen complexity, and physician practice variation. OBJECTIVES A project was initiated to implement an evidence-based oncology outpatient staffing system maximizing ...

INTRODUCTION Student nurses in Australia are regularly placed in acute clinical areas providing them with clinical experience to link theory with real patient situations. Specialist clinical areas such as day oncology and renal dialysis often exclude students on the basis that their clinical area may not be able to meet normal clinical expectations, including holistic care of four to six patien...

A component of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) standards of nursing practice is systematic assessment and collection of data about the health status of each patient; this process includes sexuality (ONS & ANA, 1996). Many tools are available to nurses when obtaining a sexual history, assessing sexual function, and providing interventions that will as...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of nursing practice environments on outcomes of hospitalized cancer patients undergoing surgery. DATA SOURCES Secondary analysis of cancer registry, inpatient claims, administrative and nurse survey data collected in Pennsylvania for 1998-1999. STUDY DESIGN Nurse staffing (patient to nurse ratio), educational preparation (proportion of nurses holding at least...

A new diagnosis of lung cancer is a highly threatening experience that raises personally relevant existential issues and brings death-related thoughts and concerns to mind. Those issues can be very disturbing to patients, leading to distress and potentially to a lowered quality of life. The purpose of this article is to present to the practicing oncology nurse the types of existential and death...

Nurses in a hematology/oncology practice are responsible for the triage and management of phone calls from a diverse oncology population. An initiative was developed at the authors' institution to identify the educational needs of RNs while designing strategies to educate and improve telephone triage skills. The goal was to standardize triage practice and ultimately improve the effectiveness of...

Ilana Kadmon, PhD, RN was for many years a nurse specialist in Breast Cancer at Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. From 2016, she started the role of a nurse academic consultant at the nursing division at Hadassah. Her PhD is from The University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research involved psychosocial aspects of breast cancer, and the role of the breast care nurse (BCN). She was a pioneer ...