Social Media Addiction May Harm Nurses’ Performance
Survey shows addiction reduces nurses’ ability to concentrate on assigned tasks.
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Fernweh: Understanding Cancer Patients’ Longing for What They Will Miss
Patients with cancer will eventually have to cope with unique feelings of loss. The loss of their future life plans. Fernweh, a German that means farsickness, may explain those feelings.
Patients, Caregivers Share High Level of Agreement in Assessments of Colorectal Cancer Care
Survey results show level of concordance between patients with CRC and their caregivers when rating care quality. The survey also measured whether clinical or demographic factors influenced the agreement between patient-caregiver pairs.
Best Practices for Handling BCG Waste
What is the proper procedure for handling bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) waste? Does the room need to be closed off after instilling the drug into the bladder?
Anticipating and Managing Cancer-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients
A review of cancer-related PTSD, its causes, and steps oncology nurses can take to ease the burden of this adverse effect on patients and their caregivers.
Nurses’ Guide to Managing Symptoms of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Oncology nurses discuss the importance of ongoing education on the treatments, symptoms, and available information on MPNs for patients, and oncology nurses.
Nurse-Rated Performance Status a Better Predictor of Outcomes, Compared With Oncologists’ Assessments
A retrospective cohort study investigated the correlation between ECOG-PS scores and clinical outcomes when patients were assessed by infusion nurses vs oncologists.
Effective Communication as an Essential Tool for Successful Patient Navigation
The importance of interactions with patients, communication with the oncology care team, and involvement in navigation research are discussed in this oral presentation.
Disparities in Cancer Care: Equality vs Equity
A presentation of a patient navigation model that functions as a multidisciplinary team effort.
Helping Patients Overcome Obstacles: Nurse Navigation Transcends Oncology When Disaster Strikes
Oncology nurse navigators are a critical resource in a disaster, and other important lessons a navigator learned in surviving, and responding to, the California wildfires.
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