Oncology
Prelims - Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients
Prelims: Full Contents, Dedications and Acknowledgments, Foreword,
Preface and About the authors
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Maintaining Health and Wellbeing
Often cancer patients forget that their health and wellbeing encompasses more than just their physical health. This fast fact sheet provides suggestions for optimizing health and wellbeing...
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Caregiver Support
This chapter offers practical suggestions that nurses may utilise to support themselves, each other and significant others. Some are orientated toward the self, others are suggested in support of others...
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Nutrition and Hydration (in palliative care)
This chapter addresses the nutritional and hydration needs of people receiving palliative care with an awareness that the major tenet of palliative care is the comfort of the individual...
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The Activity Schedule for Patients
This fact sheet is a practical worksheet, which cancer patients can use to both record their events, and motivate themselves in performing other everyday activities.
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Cancer and Sexuality - a Neglected Issue?
This chapter gives in-depth explanations and reasoning in regard to the great importance of not ignoring sexuality due to the diagnosis of cancer...
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Evidence-Based Practice in Palliative Care
This chapter provides an overview of the development of evidence-based practice (EBP), considers the processes of EBP and discusses its limitations in palliative care...
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Helping Children Adjust to a Cancer Diagnosis
Informing children of cancer, or other illnesses, can often seem a concerning experience - how much do you tell the child? How can you answer their questions? This fact sheet provides guidance on this issue; giving the reader tips on this often tricky iss
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Lymphoedema
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Malignant Wounds
Malignant wounds arise when cancer cells infiltrate the structures of the skin. This chapter attempts to provide these nurses with some practical solutions to the main symptoms and problems related with malignant wounds...
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The Use of Volunteers within the Health Services
This session will discuss the characteristics of an effective volunteer program.
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The Challenge of Chronic Illness in the Community - Part One
There is a shifting policy perspective regarding the management of chronic illness. Changing lifestyle behaviours and leadership in the face of debilitating chronic disease will enhance prospects for self management of chronic illness.
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Radiotherapy
This chapter discusses radiotherapy for gynaecological cancers and focuses on the doses of radiotherapy, its types and the acute and late effects of it...
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Advance Care Planning in Palliative Care
This chapter emphasises the importance of spending time in a well planned meeting with an older person and/or the person’s family to provide them with choices at the end of life...
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Nursing Older People Experiencing Pain
Nursing strategies to assist an older person experiencing pain. How to manage pain in an older person. Management of pharmacological control of pain.
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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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Helpful Skills for Coping with Common Psychological Concerns in Cancer Patients
Dealing with cancer is often a distressing or stressful experience for cancer patients and their family and friends. However, there are a number of skills which, when used, can significantly improve an individual's ability to cope with their cancer-relate
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Spirituality - The Essence of Cancer Care
This chapter emphasises the appreciation of the role of spirituality and its practical application within the clinical domain. It also guides nurses on the importance of spirituality for themselves as well as their patients...
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Thriving as a Health Professional -(when working with cancer patients)
This chapter identifies common challenges health professionals are faced with and the varied responses they could have...
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Constipation (in palliative care)
This chapter focuses on an evidenced-based practice approach to the management of constipation in the hospice setting and provides an overview of constipation management in the context of caring for adults at the end of life...
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