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The need for effective pain relief for several million cancer patients who suffer from chronic pain, led to the foundation of pain centers all over the world. Aspects for the satisfactory management of pain and the contribution of the professional nurse as an active member of the team in these centers are discussed.

The provision of supplies for a hospital, wards and nursing units, must be undertaken carefully. The financial side as well as the suitability and the quality of the equipment must be taken into consideration for an effective patient nursing care. A central supply system for a hospital is considered as a more economical and effective one. By this way nursing staff relieved from no nursing duties, thus they can devote more time to direct patient care in the unit.

The very numerous group of the diabetics with final stage renal disease, the peculiar and excess problems, which do not only concern their body, but also their social and psychological state, demand constant efforts for their solution. In this work methods and nursing approaches for these problems in the base of the patients personal care and the nursing process are tried and presented.

In this paper the factors that lead to nosocomial infections of hospitalized patients with cancer and prophylaxis measures are discussed. Infection is the primary cause of death for the individual with cancer. The typical signs and symptoms often are absent in these patients. Although Gram negative organisms account for the majority of infections today, an increase of nonbacterial infections is noted. "Good" nursing care of these patients is the major factor in preventing and minimizing the incidence of nosocomial infections and it is an indicator of quality care.

This brief review describes the development of Primary Health Care (PHC) in all countries of the world and the main factors which urged the World Community to adapt the PHC as the "key" for the attainment of the goal "Health for All by the year 2000". In addition, emphasis is given to the role and the contribution of Nursing to the achievement of the above goal.

This retrospective study deals with the factors responsible for the manifestation of pressure sores and the detection of high risk groups.

Nursing research, as every other research studying human beings, must be guided, attuned and illuminated by ethical principles and axioms. These principles are highlighted in the following triptych: (a) respect for the person's freedom and fundamental rights; (b) protection of human health and life; and (c) safeguarding the biopsychosocial well-being and dignity of the human subject. Nurse researchers need to know, accept, internalize and use as a light-pointer the deontological principles of nursing research for their direction to cope with ethical dilemmas. Moreover, they are expected to have the courage and heroism to discontinue their research project or their involvement in others' research, if they foresee any kind of impending risk, physical or psychosocial, for the persons of the study. Only so, nursing research will fulfil its social mission: to promote the quality of nursing services.

The nursing problem in Greece has been approached in three dimensions as a problem-challenge: the holistic patient care, nursing research and staffing nursing services. The shortage of graduate nurses, the many levels of nursing education, inadequate organization of nursing services, lack of nurses participation in decision taking for Nursing and inadequate research development have been considered as the main obstacles. Disengagement of professional nurses from civil servants salary with higher financial earning along with their university nursing education are suggested as the most appropriate incentives to attract adequate numbers of nursing candidates and remain to the profession to cover the increased needs of nursing care and the provision of quality nursing services. In addition a great number of unemployed manpower will be used and actualized in nursing where mostly is needed while there is a surplus in almost all the other professions.