Purpose/Objectives: To identify nurses' attitudes and beliefs toward cancer clinical trials and their perceptions about factors influencing patients' participation in these trials. Design: Descriptive. Setting: National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. Sample: 417 nurses...

Research highlights of the 37th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, May 12-15, 2001, in San Francisco, CA.

Purpose/Objectives: To describe the characteristics of patients with cancer that may be associated with use of or interest in nontraditional healthcare practices or therapies. Design: Descriptive study using survey methodology with a large convenience sample. Setting: Private, outpatient, adult...

Purpose/Objectives: To explore bone metastasis using Roy's Adaptation Model as a conceptual framework. Data Sources: Published articles, conference abstracts, recent texts, and prescribing information. Data Synthesis: Bone metastasis has a significant impact on the patient's ability to maintain...

Purpose/Objectives: To provide an overview of cancer-related patient-education research to determine future research needs. Data Sources: A literature search of peer-reviewed articles from 1989-1999. Databases that were searched included Medline, CINAHL, HealthStar, ERIC, CancerLit, and PubMed...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe the development and evaluation of the Hope Intervention Program (HIP), designed to enhance hope, based on the Hope Process Framework. Design: Descriptive and evaluative. Setting: Outpatient oncology clinics of two large hospitals. Sample: Convenience sample of 38...

Concerns about understanding and promoting coping with cancer permeate the research and clinical literature in oncology nursing, psychology, social work, medicine, and other healthcare disciplines. This interest in coping also is apparent in the lay literature in first-person accounts of the cancer...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe the history of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), review the current scientific literature comparing the benefits and shortcomings of SLNB with traditional axillary lymph node dissection, and describe the nursing role that should be employed when instructing patients...

A major national nursing shortage is developing that is uniquely different from other nursing shortages previously experienced in the United States. This shortage is expected to peak in the next 10–15 years unless immediate steps are taken in the public and private sectors to reshape the country’s...