Urinary catheters have been attributed to almost half of all healthcare-associated infections. Many catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) may be prevented by following recommended guidelines, which would save lives. This article illustrates the use of known guidelines for the...

Management of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) requires accurate assessment and evaluation, appropriate treatment strategies, and timely nursing interventions (e.g., monitoring, bleeding prevention, patient education). The overview of ITP in the current article reviews its etiology and provides...

Providing concise, consistent, and individually relevant patient education is critical. At one institution, patients and families attended a chemotherapy education class consisting of an 11-minute DVD and an oncology nurse-facilitated group discussion. Postclass and eight-week follow-up surveys...

Cabazitaxel, a novel taxane, was approved in June 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Admini-stration for treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in men previously treated with docetaxel. In TROPIC (N = 755), an open-label, randomized, phase III trial, cabazitaxel (plus...