Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal最新文献

Patient advocacy remains a key priority within the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) and the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO). Optimizing collaboration across advocacy organizations, institutions, and other stakeholders is timely as we enter an era where patients and their caregivers' voices are front and centre. In this paper, we report on ongoing efforts to advance patient advocacy - broadly defined as processes and behaviours related to proactively supporting a cause - herein specific to cancer care. Through active partnering, both organizations are well positioned to push for a representative and inclusive national psychosocial oncology advocacy agenda.

Little is known about the experience of nurses in Africa caring for cancer patients. This study was undertaken to provide a straightforward description of the experiences of South African nurses caring for patients in acute cancer care settings. Purposive sampling selected 20 nurses with whom there were in-depth interviews. Most of the participants were female registered oncology nurses with more than five years' experience. Three themes were identified: defining the cancer nursing experience, the challenges experienced in caring for cancer patients, and challenges imposed by the healthcare system. Most of the participants believed they were called by God to care for cancer patients. However, the challenges they experienced led to guilt feelings and believing the care they provided was insufficient. They were subjected to workplace violence, missed the support from senior nursing management, and displayed signs of burnout. Addressing these challenges could limit their emotional distress and prevent burnout.

Building upon the need for greater education, identified by gynecological cancer survivors and their caregivers, the objective of this paper is to describe our patient-clinician-researcher partnership to develop an evidence- and experiential-based educational resource. We engaged in five phases using multiple research methods: 1) assembling the essential expertise, 2) reviewing the literature, 3) drafting the resource, 4) testing the resource, and 5) disseminating the resource. Our diverse partnership provided expertise toward multiple research methods that produced results useful for each successive phase. This combination - a diverse partnership and multiple research methods - resulted in a useful resource to fulfill a gap identified by knowledge users. The combined features described in our paper fill a procedural gap for clinicians and researchers intending to develop educational resources that are empirically and experientially founded.

Compassion fatigue is understood as the combination of secondary traumatic stress and cumulative burnout caused by reduced ability to cope with one's environment. As such, compassion fatigue can be a significant workplace hazard for nurses in oncology. Findings from this integrative review reveal a lack of awareness and understanding of compassion fatigue among oncology nurses even if this group has been identified as high risk for experiencing compassion fatigue. Strategies such as self-care, mindfulness, and resiliency-based interventions to cope with compassion fatigue are reviewed herein along with related effectiveness. Some studies underscore that prevention-focused rather than treatment-focused interventions for compassion fatigue may be more effective. The responsibility for promoting and protecting oncology nurses' well-being is essential and must be spearheaded by organizations, administration, educational institutions, care teams, and individual nurses.