Communicating with Patients in Cancer Care; What Areas Do Nurses Find Most Challenging?

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 202-209

  Sivesind, Debra ^a,b   Parker, Patricia A ^c   Cohen, Lorenzo ^c   DeMoor, Carl ^c   Bumbaugh, Mickey ^c   Throckmorton, Terry ^c   Volker, Deborah L ^d   Baile, Walter F ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Section of Psychiatry   (United States)

^c Department of Behavioral Science ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPETITE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DYING; EMPATHY; EUTHANASIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; TEACHING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0347416886     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15430154jce1804_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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