Oncology nurses consistently exhibit distress when communicating about end-of-life topics with patients and families. Poor communication experiences and processes correlate with emotional distress, moral distress, and work-related stress. The National Consensus Project (NCP) for Quality Palliative...

The risk of suicide in the cancer population is real, and it requires nurses to be able to assess and manage such risk competently. This article supports the idea that oncology nurses need to be comfortable with identifying, assessing, and appropriately triaging depressed and possibly suicidal...

Purpose/Objectives : To explore the feasibility and impact of an emotional intelligence ability development program on staff and patient care. Design : A mixed method, pre/post-test design. Setting : A tertiary care hospital in urban Honolulu, HI. Rounds took place on a 24-bed inpatient oncology...

Purpose/Objectives: To develop a descriptive framework of the communication processes used by Latinos with prostate cancer to communicate about their diagnosis. Research Approach: A constructivist grounded theory approach was used to analyze and build a descriptive framework from semistructured...