Oncology nursing

Grief and Oncology Nursing My earliest experiences of observing nursing in action occurred during my last two years of high school. My father was diagnosed with cancer during the spring of my junior year and died right before my senior year. During that short time I watched as the nurses cared for him and I could see compassion and empathy in the way they looked at him. It never occurred to me until after I had raised my children that I wanted to be able to help people in the same way those nurses

Name of Programme: BSc (Hons) Nursing Student Name: Siti Aminah Ariffin Student Number: J9168783 Name of Module Acute Medical Care management Module Code: SDH 3010-N Module leader: Leslie Inayatullah Assignment title Reflective Essay Date of submission 10th September 2010 Word count: 3485 words Nursing as a profession is committed to the care of patients and families throughout health and illness and across all setting of care. Nurses assess and plan care to deal

ONCC(The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation),is a program that evaluated nurses for oncology certification. The mission statement is to promote excellence in patient care and professional practice by validating specialized knowledge in oncology nursing and related specialties”. The vision statement on the other hand states that oncology care across the continuum will be provided by oncology certified professionals. The values of the ONCC are the corporations guiding principles and they include

an Oncology Nurse. An Oncology nurse is a nurse that works for cancer patients. When becoming an Oncology Nurse; there are many different topics that are needed to know. I need to learn what the different abbreviations mean in oncology nursing and the technical communication and writing used in this career. I do not just want to become an oncology nurse, I want to become an oncology nurse that works with children. I feel like oncology nursing

Palliative Care Education For Oncology Nurses Palliative care education can provide nurses with the skills needed to assist oncology patients during the end of life process. Palliative care eases symptoms and relieves suffering that is caused by life threatening conditions (Johnston & Vadeboncoeur, 2011). Does palliative care education assist nurses in the treatment of oncology patients during their end of life process? This process is needed within all oncology units because the end of life

download this easy to use app so they can access the information on their own. Another online resource for oncology nurses that my colleagues use daily is Putting Evidence into Practice (PEP) pages by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). The PEP resource can be purchased and downloaded via itunes or kindle and accessed on a mobile device. These are specific interventions for nurses to use with oncology patients accompanied by the research that validates their use. These two quality resources are the accepted

This statement is hereby identified as “Because of the intense and emotional relationship they form with pediatric oncology patients and their families, pediatric oncology nurses are exposed to multiple and compound work-related losses” (Conte, 2014). This statement encompasses the entire nature of the article and intimately describes the title as set forth. This author chose a purposive sampling

in Psycho-Oncology: A New Pathway In Cancer Care The field of medicine is as vast it can get. With new technology and cutting edge research, there are more and more methods and discipline that are introduced to cure diseases. One such field is that of cancer. Most of these are found and categorized, with the cure and treatment methods devised to make the patient better. One such area, which has been finding a major spot in terms of getting the patient back on track is Psycho-Oncology. Psycho-Oncology

cancer respectively. I have seen the horrible effects it has on the victim and their families, and knowing that pain and grief personally, makes me believe that I would be a great nurse in oncology. I want to help those going through what could be some of the toughest times in their lives if not the toughest. An Oncology Clinical Nurse (OCN) is someone who has training in the treatment of those diagnosed with cancer and

can exercise as a form of fatigue management reduce cancer related fatigue In oncology patients compared to no fatigue management? There will be approximately 19 million cancer survivors in the U.S. by the year 2022 (The American Cancer Society, 2014). A cancer survivor is considered anyone diagnosed with cancer, from date of diagnosis until death (The American Cancer Society, 2014). Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF) is be the most distressing side effect associated with cancer therapy, while pain is