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Enhancing Patient Outcomes in Healthcare Systems Through Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Sara McComb
Megan Hebdon
CJON 2013, 17(6), 669-672 DOI: 10.1188/13.CJON.669-670
The increasingly complex needs of patients with cancer and their families call for a multidisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The purpose of the current article is to describe a teamwork model that can be used to address the needs of patients and the challenges associated with a...
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Population-Based Advanced Practice Nursing: Where Does Oncology Fit in?

Jennie Greco Lattimer
CJON 2013, 17(6), 576-577 DOI: 10.1188/13.CJON.576-577
A national work group met in 2004 to discuss the future of advanced practice nursing. The representatives were nursing education, certification, accreditation, and regulation experts, and the goal was to develop a consensus model for advanced practice nursing regulation (Nevidjon et al., 2010). As...
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The Experience of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Change: A Qualitative Analysis

Margaret M. Irwin
Rosalie M. Bergman
Rebecca Richards
CJON 2013, 17(5), 544-549 DOI: 10.1188/13.CJON.544-549
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) and ONS Foundation worked together to develop the Institute for Evidence-Based Practice Change (IEBPC) program to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) change in nursing. This analysis describes the experience of 19 teams of nurses from...
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A Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Improving Psychosocial Care in Patients With Cancer

Guadalupe R. Palos
Frank R. Tortorella
Karen Stepen
Maria Alma Rodriguez
CJON 2013, 17(5), 556-558 DOI: 10.1188/13.CJON.556-558
The demand for patient-centered care has reinforced the need for a systematic approach to planning appropriate psychosocial services. A proposed strategy to address this need is to use a multidisciplinary team comprised of oncology nurses, physicians, mental health professionals, social workers,...
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Implementing a Dedicated Education Unit: A Practice Partnership With Oncology Nurses

Grace E. Dean
Judith L. Reishtein
Joanne McVey
Marioly Ambrose
Sarah M. Burke
Mimi Haskins
Janice Jones
CJON 2013, 17(2), 208-210 DOI: 10.1188/13.CJON.208-210
An urgent need exists to identify innovative and evidence-based educational methods to help oncology nurses provide safe and high-quality patient care. One promising solution is the dedicated education unit (DEU) educational model, which partners nursing faculty and skilled nursing clinicians to...
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