PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To conduct a role delineation study of basic oncology nursing practice as a basis for revision of the blueprint for the Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN) examination. DESIGN Three-phase study of oncology nurses' practice. SAMPLE 735 oncology nurses randomly chosen from all nurses who are OCN certified. METHODS A pilot survey was mailed to a small group to allow refinement ...

Study of the prevalence of smoking among school children, using secondary data from the Survey School "Doing Research - Monitoring of Smoking in School", conducted by the Centre for Oncologic Research of Santa Catarina. Included variables such as age, the starting in smoking, level of knowledge about the subject, among others. It was found that 41.6% of students smoked sometime in life, no stat...

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/04.CJON.209-210 Hypercalcemia is a metabolic condition that occurs when the serum calcium level rises above the normal range of 9–11 mg/dl (Myers, 2001; Smith, 2000). It is a complex metabolic oncologic emergency that can be life threatening. This column is the first of a two-part series about hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM). Part I focuses on the pathophysi...

Abstract Background: In addition to child, families can be influenced traumatically by the leukemia and hospitalization. Adopting the philosophy of a family-centered care approach can maximize the well being of pediatric patients and their family. The philosophy is based on the collaboration of the family, nurses and hospital staff to plan, provide and evaluate care to establish the bes...

conclusion the designed split-bolus mdct technique can be proposed alternatively to triphasic mdct and in a single-pass to pvp in the initial staging and in the follow-up respectively in oncologic patients. patients and methods we retrospectively analyzed the follow-up split-bolus 64-detector row ct protocol in 36 oncologic patients to characterize focal liver lesions. the split-bolus mdct prot...

BACKGROUND The nursing minimum data set (NMDS) was created in 1977 in the United States to collect uniform standardised data that could be comparable among different nursing areas or patients. So far, in the literature, an NMDS in an oncology setting has not yet been described. Considering an oncology nursing minimum data set (ONMDS), which data could be chosen to define this tool regarding can...

Introduction: Pain management is one of the challenging issues in paediatric oncologic domain. Strengthening nurses’ knowledge and skills are necessary to establish optimal quality care. The study aimed develop a pain nursing care program for children with cancer. Patients methods: participants qualitative research phase included 10 children’s parents (8 mothers 2 fathers) 15 health providers (...

conclusions pet/ct can provide diagnosis and more accurate staging, location of tumor with its capability in providing the anatomical and physiological information synchronizes. therefore pet/ct plays an important role in oncology. objectives in this paper, we evaluate application of pet/ct for improve oncologic imaging. methods the papers were searched in pubmed and scopus databases with the r...

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 Kronik bir hastalık olan kanser, hücrelerin anormal şekilde, kontrolsüz biçimde çoğalmasıyla meydana gelir. Kanser, erken teşhis ve tedavi edilmediğinde ölümle sonuçlanabilen sağlık sorunudur. Onkolojik aciller, kanser hastasının tedavisi ile ilişkili akut ya da kanserin doğrudan veya dolaylı etkilerine sekonder olarak gelişen, potansiyel acil gerektiren yaşamı tehdit eden durum tanıml...