Background: Healthcare providers experience many ethical challenges while caring for and making treatment decisions with patients and their families. Objectives: The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine the challenges and circumstances that surround ethically difficult situations in...
Purpose/Objectives: To identify and compare the prevalence and correlates of strength exercise among breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer survivors. Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive survey. Setting: Nova Scotia, Canada. Sample: 741 breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer survivors. Methods:...
Cancer Pain Management Scenarios presents 11 scenarios of patients dealing with varying levels of cancer-related pain. Each scenario presents you with a case study and a series of questions and answers that will help lead you to a better understanding of how to manage pain....
Cognitive impairment is a distressing, disruptive, and potentially debilitating symptom that can occur as a direct result of cancer or its treatment. National organizations have identified cognitive impairment as a challenge many survivors face and call for research to address this problem. Despite...
"The authors of [Multiple Myeloma: A Textbook for Nurses] have given a sound, scientific, and sophisticated summary of the disease entity, its pathophysiology, and natural...
From the team that has brought you the Putting Evidence Into Practice (PEP) resources since 2006 comes the first-ever pocket-sized book containing everything you need to immediately improve patient care. Putting Evidence Into Practice: A Pocket Guide to Cancer Symptom Management;...
Stay on the cutting edge with ONS's first book focusing on oncology nurses as navigators. Oncology Nurse Navigation provides an in-depth review of the emerging specialty of oncology nursing navigation.
Cancers of the liver and pancreas remain challenging problems in oncology, with the five-year survival rates still dire for both types of cancer – 14%, overall, for all forms of liver cancer, according to a report from the American Cancer Society in 2012. The latest book in the Site-Specific...
Hot flashes are a distressing symptom frequently experienced by survivors of breast cancer or prostate cancer who are receiving estrogen or androgen-deprivation therapies. The frequency and intensity of hot flashes can lead to diminished quality of life and decreased adherence with prescribed...
Anxiety may begin at the moment a person is diagnosed with cancer and may fluctuate throughout the cancer trajectory as physical illness improves or declines. The purpose of this article is to present current evidence for nurses to implement interventions to reduce anxiety in patients who have...
