Cancer
Dealing with Hair Loss
Hair loss is a very common side effect of cancer treatment. Whilst it may initially seem a daunting prospect, better understanding and preparing for the experience may make it more bearable.
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Psychological and Existential Distress (realted to palliative care)
Potential causes of transient distress in palliative care include insensitive comments, long waits in clinical departments and disease symptoms. Such potential causes of distress should be an important focus of attention in everyday nursing practice..
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Lymphoedema
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Sexuality and Body image
A woman living with gynaecological cancer is confronted by a range of problems that can have a profound psychological impact on the woman and her partner. The important issue of sexuality and body image is explored in this chapter...
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Loss, Grief and Bereavement
Women with gynaecological cancer experience a range of challenges and losses. This chapter discusses the challenges of potential loss, grief and bereavement faced by women with gynaecological cancer...
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Strategies to Manage Your Worry
Providing four easy steps to help manage your worry, this fact sheet encourages active self-help when an individual may be becoming overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts...
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You have Prostate Cancer
This chapter provides a first-hand account of a man suffering from prostate cancer. It relates his story from when he was first diagnosed, his treatment and his recovery...
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Breathlessness (palliative care)
This chapter provides an overview of breathlessness in patients receiving palliative care. It draws on research studies and other literature on the subject and outlines the most appropriate management strategies in the palliative-care setting...
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Practical Care of the Dying Older Person
Practical strategies for caring for older people at the very end of their life.
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Providing Group Programs for Cancer Patients and Carers
This chapter outlines two peer support options available for cancer patients and their carers: peer group programs and support groups...
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Endometrial Cancer
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological malignancy in the developed world. This chapter examines endometrial cancer; its patterns of spread, management, stages and more.
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Reaching Our Limit of Coping
This fast fact sheet provides both information about and a diagram of the stress threshold - how much we can handle and what we should do when we know we've reached that threshold...
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Identifying Values in Life
When overwhelmed by life, we often forget to focus on what really matters to us. This fact sheet, indicating values in relation to an individual, is ideal for a patient feeling lost or down, or a health professional consulting their patient...
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A Nurse Reflects on Being a Patient with Secondary Cancer
This session discusses the lived experience of a nurse who has a diagnosis of cancer of the breast. This poignant lecture is a profoundly moving session that will assist all nurses to reflect on their own practice and the manner in which they relate to vu
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Assessing Concerns (in Patients with a Cancer Diagnosis)
This chapter explores how to properly assess patient concerns and provides guidance on how to approach this...
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Prelims - Gynaecological Cancer Care
Prelims:Dedication, Acknowledgments,Foreword, Preface, About the Authors,
Anatomical Diagrams and Contents
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Exploring the Boundries of Oncological Nursing Practice
This chapter evaluates the heath care system and the nurses role within this system. It lists the movements that are being created for a better future and offers a range of opportunities and suggestions for nurses who wish to create a better future...
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Coping with Anger
Within the health care setting, it is important that patients and health professionals are sufficiently assisted in identifying, understanding and resolving situations involving anger so that the environment is as beneficial and productive as possible.
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Endmatter - Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients
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Challenges and Opportunities - Educating the Nurse for Cancer Care
Following a brief historical overview, this chapter focuses on the challenges and opportunities that exist in the formal preparation of nurses for cancer care...
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