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The role of nurse-led care in cancer management
No full textExtending nurses’ roles and responsibilities so that they may take on some functions of doctors is widely advocated to assist with shortages of medical staff, improve service provision, and to reduce costs. In cancer care in particular, use of specialist nurses to help meet targets for faster diagnosis and treatment is seen as essential. However, there has been little detailed investigation of the consequences, effectiveness, or acceptability of doctor–nurse substitution across health care, or more specifically in cancer services. In this article, I review the evidence for nurse-led care in cancer
Influencing policy, changing practice: improving the care of people with metastatic breast cancer
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Self management in palliative care
No full textTo propose ‘self management’ as an important new direction for palliative care may seem somewhat paradoxical. Just at the time when we as nurses find ourselves needing to do more and more, taking over the handling of normal activities and managing the most intimate of bodily processes for people who are dying, here I am saying that ‘self management’ is the new ‘letting go’. Before you say ‘rubbish’, let me explain
A pilot study of the symptom complexes associated with early and late stage cancer, and the factors associated with a delay in presentation and diagnosis of lung cancer
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