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How Is Hope Reimagined at the End of Life?

Nicole Brashear
CJON 2019, 23(4), 448 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.448
While working as a women’s health nurse practitioner (NP) in the obstetric and gynecologic setting for 10 years, I found life circumstances steering my family and I to relocate. An opportunity arose for me to change gears and enter the world of women’s health oncology. After seven months in my new...
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Letters to the Editor

ONF 2001, 1349-1350 DOI:
We are writing to challenge nurses in the field of oncology to address the urgent need for improved end-of-life care. The care that nurses provide to patients at the end of life has received much recent attention. Numerous organizations have developed professional standards on end-of-life care for...
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Caregiver Burden and Symptom Distress in People With Cancer Receiving Hospice Care

Stephanie Andrews
ONF 2001, 1469-1474 DOI:
Purpose/Objectives: To examine the relationship between caregiver burden and symptom distress in patients with terminal cancer who are enrolled in hospice. Design: Descriptive, quantitative. Setting: A large, metropolitan, nonprofit-based organization in west central Florida. Sample: Convenience...
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The Relationships Between Family Primary Caregiver Characteristics and Satisfaction With Hospice Care, Quality of Life, and Burden

Judy L. Meyers
Louis N. Gray
ONF 2001, 73-82 DOI:
Purpose/Objectives: To examine relationships between family primary caregiver characteristics and satisfaction with hospice care, quality of life (QOL), and burden. Design: Exploratory, quantitative. Setting: Five hospice organizations in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Sample: 44 primary...
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Symptom Distress: Implementation of Palliative Care Guidelines to Improve Pain, Fatigue, and Anxiety in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Niki Koesel
Christine Tocchi
Larry Burke
Tracey Yap
Alison Harrison
CJON 2019, 23(2), 149-155 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.149-155
Background: The integration of palliative care into standard oncology care is supported by research to improve quality of life and symptom distress in patients with advanced cancer. In 2016, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released practice guidelines for oncology palliative care...
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