Problem Statement: To define the Oncology Nursing Society Research Agenda for 2019–2022. Design: Multimethod, consensus-building approach by members of the Research Agenda Project Team. Data Sources: Expert opinion, literature review, surveys, interviews, focus groups, town hall, and review of...

Purpose: To understand how rural residents with advanced cancer experience and manage their symptoms. Participants & Setting: 16 adult patients with a diagnosis of advanced cancer, who were receiving antineoplastic treatment and living in rural areas of southeastern Iowa, participated in the...

Nursing research relies heavily on the use of latent constructs to describe and understand phenomena that cannot be measured through direct observation. In statistical models, variables representing these constructs, often operationalized and represented as scores on self-report measures, stand in...

Background: Jehovah’s Witnesses are members of a religion that prohibits them from accepting blood product transfusions. This refusal makes them a particularly compelling population in the context of hematologic malignancies and stem cell transplantation, because blood product transfusions are a...