Oncology Nurses' Identified Educational Needs for Providing Palliative Care

<jats:p> Oncology nurses are primary providers of care to persons with cancer (PWC) and play a crucial role in providing palliative care (PC) to this population. However, little is known about the educational needs of oncology nurses when providing PC to PWC. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively investigate oncology nurses’ educational needs in providing the eight domains of PC listed in the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP) guidelines to PWC. A nationally representative sample of oncology nurses who are members of the Oncology Nursing Society responded to two open-ended questions. Results showed the majority of the 303 respondents defined the term “PC” as primarily being symptom management. Oncology nurses ( n = 246) expressed educational needs in all eight domains of PC. These nurses need additional education in the provision of PC in order to deliver holistic, person-centered care to PWC. /jats:p

Parajuli, Oncology Nurses’ Identified Educational Needs for Providing Palliative Care, 'Western Journal of Nursing Research' (43, 9) pp. 809-816. Copyright © 2021. DOI: 10.1177/0193945920986112. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission.

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Work Title Oncology Nurses' Identified Educational Needs for Providing Palliative Care
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  1. Jyotsana Parajuli
  2. Judith Hupcey
License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives)
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  1. SAGE Publications
Publication Date January 9, 2021
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  1. 10.1177/0193945920986112
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  1. Western Journal of Nursing Research
Deposited September 09, 2021

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